Alexa Dretzke
Alexa Dretzke is a children’s & YA book specialist at Readings Hawthorn
Review — 21 Oct 2019
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts
There could not be a more pertinent time for a book about a young girl with a vision for a better world! From a young age Sofia has been keen…
Review — 23 Sep 2019
Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl & Lauren O’Hara
Mabel lives at The Mermaid Hotel, which her parents manage. She is an imaginative ‘adventurer’ who often goes down to the nearby sea, the same sea Madame Badobedah travelled across…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
You Might Find Yourself by Tai Snaith
Tai Snaith is a master of collage and mixed media and her new picture book has been eagerlyawaited. It shines with brilliant art and gorgeous imaginings; it beckons you in…
Review — 24 Jun 2019
Rumblestar by Abi Elphinstone
Rumblestar is an adventure-filled fantasy that features a timid, unlikely hero and a feisty, disagreeable girl and her tiny, totally adorable dragon. Casper is unwillingly transported from hisweather-challenged world, where…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
As Happy As Here by Jane Godwin
Jane Godwin has been busy with wonderful picture books the last few years, so it is a treat to have her back writing fiction. Three early teens with different situations…
Review — 27 May 2019
Kind by Alison Green and Axel Scheffler
Kindness can be as simple as smiling at someone or just listening carefully. Sometimes it is being humane to an animal, or welcoming newcomers and making them feel at home…
Review — 27 May 2019
Monty and the Poodles by Katie Harnett
Monty lives on the wrong side of the tracks, while Ginger and her pals luxuriate on the right side, at Poodle Mansions. So what does a homeless mutt have in…
Review — 26 Mar 2019
A Quiet Girl by Peter Carnavas
I love this gorgeous little picture book. I love that it champions children who get forgotten because they are gentle and quiet. Mary treads lightly on this earth and notices…
Review — 25 Feb 2019
Brilliant Ideas by Wonderful Women by Aitziber Lopez & Luciano Lozano
Men have long been credited as great innovators but thankfully publishers are now celebrating the contribution of ingenious women inventors in a flood of wonderful titles we can’t get enough…
Review — 25 Feb 2019
Yahoo Creek by Tohby Riddle
Yahoo Creek is a haunting evocation of actual reports, mostly in the early 1900s, of an ape-like creature inhabiting bush areas that are connected with the massive breadth of the…
