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 — 18 Aug 2021
Recent picture books about dogs
We are utterly spoilt for choice with dog books at the moment! And there’s nothing more enjoyable than a picture book about a cute canine to get young people excited…
Review — 1 Aug 2021
The Spectacular Suit by Kat Patrick
Frankie is having a party, a special garden party, and everything is sorted, except for what she’s going to wear. She doesn’t want to wear any of the dresses her…
Review — 1 Aug 2021
Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn
Set in the shanty towns of Durban, South Africa, and featuring a biracial protagonist, Malla Nunn’s second novel explores identity and belonging with a loving eye.
Fifteen-year-old Amandla has been…
Review — 29 Jun 2021
Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti
American YA author Deb Caletti writes powerful stories about young women in challenging circumstances and Girl, Unframed is no exception. Sydney Reilly must leave her friends in Seattle to live…
Review — 27 Jun 2021
When Days Tilt by Karen Ginnane
This fantasy novel is set in two cities; an alternate 1858 Victorian London and a shadow city called Donlen, ruled over by the Green Witch. Time is sometimes malleable in…
Review — 27 Jun 2021
Story Doctors by Boori Monty Pryor & Rita Sinclair
The legendary Boori Monty Pryor has written an evocative poem about healing humanity through restoring our relationship with the earth. Drawing on thousands of years of First Nations knowledge, this…
Review — 30 May 2021
We Were Wolves by Jason Cockcroft
This unusual illustrated novel is about the relationship between a boy and his father, as well as the mythic animal energies that surround them.
The boy’s father has come back…
Review — 25 Apr 2021
The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
This beautiful story set in a fascinating future is narrated in alternating chapters by 16-year-old Kasey Mizuhara and her older sister Celia. These very different young women have become physically…
Review — 25 Apr 2021
Arno and His Horse by Jane Godwin & Felicita Sala
Most kids have a special toy that they love to carry everywhere. Arno’s most precious item is a little wooden horse that his grandpa carved for him. After a day’s…
Review — 28 Mar 2021
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud
As a first-time reader of Jonathan Stroud, I am seriously impressed with his style. This is a great Bonnie & Clyde-style outlaw adventure set in a post-apocalyptic England that has…
