Dani Solomon
Dani Solomon is the manager of Readings Kids
Review — 29 Mar 2020
The January Stars by Kate Constable
Clancy and Tash have kidnapped their grandfather from an agedcare home. He’s a stroke survivor in a wheelchair whose main form of communication is just a few words: ‘yes’, ‘nah’…
Review — 23 Feb 2020
Please Don’t Eat Me by Liz Climo
Rabbit has the misfortune of meeting Bear when Bear is hungry. At first Rabbit seems almost resigned to her fate. ‘Aw, nuts,’ she says, before asking Bear not to eat…
Review — 23 Feb 2020
Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour by Ally Carter
Eleven-year-old April is used to being bounced around from foster home to foster home, so when she ends up at a mansion with four other kids she hardly expects to…
Review — 27 Jan 2020
Coming Home to Country by Bronwyn Bancroft
Bronwyn Bancroft’s love and respect for her Country shines in Coming Home to Country. There are few words in this book – a sentence per page – but they…
Blog post — 14 Nov 2019
The best middle reader books of 2019
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 middle reader books of the year…
Review — 27 Jan 2020
Highfire by Eoin Colfer
Vern is a dragon. The last one, in fact, and as such he is made up of about twenty per cent misery and bitterness, and eighty per cent sarcasm. He…
Review — 21 Oct 2019
The Impossible Boy by Ben Brooks
After inventing a fake and impossible classmate called Sebastian Cole to trick their substitute teacher, Oleg and Emma are surprised to find that Sebastian, his TARDIS-like spaceship, bottomless backpack and…
Blog post — 16 Oct 2019
Frances Hardinge's books ranked by scariness
Readings Kids bookseller Dani Solomon is a Frances Hardinge super fan. We asked her to rank the award-winning British author’s books by their scariness and here is the result.
The…
Review — 21 Oct 2019
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
Despite being an orphaned street kid, Hark is lucky – for most of his life, the Gods of the Undersea have been dead and unable to reign with terror upon…
Review — 23 Sep 2019
Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower by Christian McKay Heidicker
Phoebe’s mum is the world-famous Loretta Lane – the woman with whom King Kong (who was actually a ‘giant sweetheart’) was infatuated. Her dad is an invisible giant man in…
