Maple the Brave is a super cute new picture book about friendship and courage and being kind. The illustrations are absolutely to die for - there are several pages in this one that I would frame and put on my wall as prints! But you don't have to take my word for it - I have a special guest blogger helping me out...
We're officially into the final week of my month of Aussie middle-grade binge reading and I've managed to knock off all of the shorter books on my tbr (as well as adding a few to the list thanks to some excellent recommendations). This morning I went to my stack and noticed that the books I have left are all the bigger ones, that...
YA fantasy with fierce female leads is my original bookish bag, so I was absolutely thrilled when Allen and Unwin sent me a copy of Four Dead Queens - a new #loveozya novel from debut author Astrid Scholte. By the time I got my hands on a copy I had already heard a load of fantastic buzz about this book, and on reading...
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Kidlit :: Dream Riders: Frankie :: Laura Bloom and Jesse Blackadder
The equine obsession continues today, with my review of new middle-grade release Dream Riders: Frankie by Laura Bloom and Jesse Blackadder. This is the first of four books in their Dream Riders series about friendship and natural horsemanship, and (as per the title) stars a girl called Frankie (and her pony, Zen). From the Walker website: Frankie’s dream is more like a nightmare...
I was one of those girls who was absolutely crazy about horses when I was a kid. I spent hours studying books about the different breeds, and how to look after your own horse, and what were all the parts of a horse called, and anything I could get my eyeballs one. I had my own pony and went to pony club and...
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Kidlit :: The Children of the Dragon series :: Rebecca Lim
Rebecca Lim was one of the editors of my favourite book last year - Meet Me at the Intersection - and I have been keen to read more of her work since then. It seemed like a sign, then, when I saw she had a new middle grade novel coming out this month - right when I was planning to read more books...
Yesterday was one of my favourite book events of the year - the Sydney Writers' Festival All Day YA. This was my third time - if you'd like to check out my posts about previous years you can see 2017 here and 2018 here. Honestly, I think the SWF just does the most amazing job with their YA programming, and each year I...
I've noticed over the last year or so that more and more middlegrade books (for readers between the ages of about 8 to 12 years old) by Australian writers have been making their way into my to be read pile. I thought it might be fun to dedicate a month to reading my way through some of them, and May way appealing because...
