Dani Solomon
Dani Solomon is the manager of Readings Kids
Review — 26 Jun 2016
When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
Ben Coffin spent 10 years in children’s homes before 67-year-old Tess adopted him. It was almost worth the wait. Tess is the kind of mum who, when Ben walks into…
Review — 26 May 2016
One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
Seventeen-year-old Sam’s mum has died. With no father in the picture and nowhere else to go, the Department of Child Services have directed him to call his estranged Aunty Lorraine…
Review — 26 May 2016
A Face Like Glass by Francis Hardinge
The people of Caverna are born without the ability to naturally make facial expressions. Instead they must learn them manually from a ‘Facesmith’. The rich folk, of course, can learn…
Review — 26 May 2016
The Other Side of Summer by Emily Gale
Summer’s brother, Floyd, is killed in an accident. Unsure how to cope with the loss, Summer clings to his Ibanez Artwood guitar (Floyd was giving her lessons before he died)…
Review — 27 Jul 2015
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
If Firefly and Red Dwarf had a baby and it was raised by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the cast of Girls, and the baby was a…
Review — 29 Mar 2016
Dreaming the Enemy by David Metzenthen
Johnny stares at the screen as a celebrity, watched over by a nearby government official, pulls a number out of a barrel and reads it aloud. Just like that, Johnny’s…
Review — 29 Feb 2016
The Way We Roll by Scot Gardner
All we know about Will in the first few chapters of The Way We Roll is he’s dropped out of a wealthy private boarding school (it’s complicated) and he lives…
Blog post — 9 Sep 2015
Reflecting on the final Discworld novel
Longtime Terry Pratchett fan Dani Solomon writes about the bittersweet experience of reading the final Discworld novel. (Please note, there are some spoilers in here.)
A few weeks ago I…
Review — 9 Sep 2015
Super Happy Magic Forest by Matty Long
I admit that before I even opened the cover of this picture book, I was ready to declare it the best one we currently have in our shop. Something about…
Review — 27 Jul 2015
Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master by Emily Rodda
As a young girl in a post-Shadow Lord Deltora, Britta has two choices – work in her mother’s shop, exiled to the outskirts of her village, or fulfil her lifelong…