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.
Review — 29 Aug 2022
The Goodbye Year by Emily Gale
Harper is excited about her final year of primary school, but nothing is working out the way she hoped. Her nurse parents travel to Yemen for work and she has…
Review — 19 Sep 2022
The Bookseller's Apprentice by Amelia Mellor
This prequel to the bestselling The Grandest Bookshop in the World is a magical journey into late 19th-century Melbourne.
Twelve-year-old Billy, the eldest in a large family, must leave school…
Blog post — 12 Sep 2022
Neurodiverse stories for middle grade readers
It is heartening to see more books with neurodiverse main characters. Not only are these stories fantastic for young people who experience neurodiversity in one way or another, but it’s…
Blog post — 18 Jul 2022
Spotlight on recent children's books in translation
A number of wonderful, quirky (and often hilarious) children’s books in translation have been released recently. Here are some of our recent favourites:
It’s My Rubber Band by Shinsuke Yoshitake
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Blog post — 13 Jul 2022
Recommended YA books and news for July
So many exciting books this month to dive into! Our Book of the Month is a funny, queer romance about an aspiring comedian. We have a new Meg Rosoff, set…
Blog post — 13 Jul 2022
Recommended children's books and news for July
Our Book of the Month in July is a beautiful story about a unique friendship from award-winning author, Pip Harry. We are also featuring a story about two sisters adjusting…
Review — 29 Jun 2022
Money Queens by Michelle Bowes
When I was a teenager, my father gave me a book called Making Money Made Simple and quizzed me endlessly about the financial wisdom within. Maybe I didn’t become thecorporate…
Blog post — 27 Jun 2022
Top picks for Kids and YA book clubs
Below are our top picks for book clubs from the recent crop of new releases for young people.
For readers aged 5-8
Open your Heart to Country by Jasmine Seymour
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Blog post — 30 Jun 2022
Old But Gold - Classic YA that deserves a revisit
Some books are just classic. Movies are made of them and thousands of words are written about them. They have weaved their way into popular culture so fully that it…
Review — 29 Aug 2022
My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder
When my daughter was young, I told her that while she was small it was my job to look after her, but that one day I would be small and…
