Angela Crocombe
Angela Crocombe is the Readings Prize and Readings Foundation coordinator and a senior buyer for Readings Kids. She is also the author of two books on sustainable living, A Lighter Footprint: A Practical Guide to Minimising your Impact on the Planet and Ethical Eating: How to Make Food Choices That Won’t Cost the Earth.
Blog post — 29 Apr 2022
Support challenged and banned books for young people
Review — 29 Mar 2022
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction edited by Rafeif Ismael & Ellen van Neerven
This collection of science fiction and speculative fiction is a conversation between local Blak and Black writing communities, as the editors state in their introduction, which itself takes the form…
Blog post — 31 Jan 2022
Books to read aloud to children
Reading aloud to kids increases their vocabulary, helps improve their attention span, and is a great way to spend time with them. But really, the best reason to read to…
Review — 24 Jan 2022
I'll Keep You Close by Jeska Verstegen
Based on a true story that occurred within the author’s immediate family, this is a story of how the experiences of the Holocaust affect the next generations, no matter how…
Review — 24 Jan 2022
At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp
Written from the perspective of three different teenagers, this is the story of a group of delinquents that the world has forgotten when a plague takes over society. Grace, Logan…
Blog post — 1 Dec 2021
Kids book buyers' favourites of 2021
Book buyers at each of the stores of Readings come across thousands of books each year and have to make decisions about which ones to stock, which ones to feature…
Blog post — 29 Nov 2021
10 women writing history in 2021
2021 was a terrific year for history books written by women.
Some of the many brilliant reads include an incisive look at the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations…
Blog post — 9 Feb 2022
Rainbow family picture books
We’ve seen some beautiful new books recently that reflect diverse families in all their glory, whether it be two dads, two mums, a child who does not gender conform, or…
Blog post — 18 Nov 2021
Recent picture books about cats
A little while ago I wrote a blog post focusing on picture books about dogs, which was great for dog lovers, but the cat lovers were very scratchy about…
Review — 2 Nov 2021
Cat Problems by Jory John & Lane Smith (illus.)
This wonderful author–illustrator partnership has already given us two picture books featuring bad-tempered, cynical characters complaining about their lives: Penguin Problems and Giraffe Problems. The eponymous cat in Cat…
