Dani Solomon
Dani Solomon is the manager of Readings Kids
Review — 20 Aug 2017
The Missing Ace by Cosentino with Jack Heath & James Hart
Cosentino, the Grand Illusionist, is working on his latest illusion – escaping from a pit of deadly snakes while in a sack padlocked in chains – when Ace, an anthropomorphic…
Review — 23 Oct 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Compared to A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet which was very much an ensemble piece incorporating a dozen people and spanning light years of space, A Closed and…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
D-Bot Squad: Dino Hunter by Mac Park
It’s Book Week at Hunter’s school – and while everyone else is dressed as a superhero, Hunter is dressed as his favourite thing in the world, a Dinosaur Hunter. Two…
Review — 24 Jul 2017
The Shop at Hoopers Bend by Emily Rodda
The Shop at Hoopers Bend is the kind of book that’s chock-full of all sorts of amazing coincidences. It starts when Jonquil, who has been staying with her aunt’s PA…
Review — 24 Jul 2017
Exchange of Heart by Darren Groth
When Munro’s little sister Evie dies in his arms, from heart complications connected to her Down’s Syndrome, he just can’t cope. A year after her death, he convinces his parents…
Review — 24 Jul 2017
Sparrow by Scot Gardner
Sparrow doesn’t speak. He lives in the ceiling of the toilet rooms in a mall in Darwin. He doesn’t have many reasons to become anything more than a ‘ghost boy’…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais
Fifteen-year-old Mireille has had the honour of coming first two years running in her school’s annual ‘Pig Pageant’, a horrible Facebook competition to find the ugliest girls in the school…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
Funny Kid for President by Matt Stanton
Max’s schoolteacher has it in for him. Someone has done a poop in Mr Armstrong’s storeroom. For reasons unknown (but probably related to the fact that Max is no good…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
Esra is 11 years old and she is kept in a basement with Miran, also 11 and Isa, who is only 7. All three children bear the tattoo of their…
Review — 29 May 2017
The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster by Sally Rippin
Polly is not very good at being a witch: she muddles up spells and has trouble reading her potions book, because the letters dance around the page. After a particularly…
