Dani Solomon
Dani Solomon is the manager of Readings Kids
Review — 23 Sep 2019
The Glimme by Emily Rodda & Marc McBride
Finn lives in a perfectly ordinary village – a place where nothing strange ever happens (other than the occasional person mysteriously disappearing). Much to his ornery grandfather’s disgust, Finn spends…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
Argh! There's a Skeleton Inside You! by Idan Ben-Barak & Julian Frost
Quog and Oort are two friends on their way to another friend’s birthday party when their spaceship breaks down. They try to get out and fix it, but they cannot…
Review — 27 May 2019
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Aven thinks her dad has gone crazy when he announces that the family are going to move toArizona and manage a run-down old country-and-western theme park. She dreads moving from…
Review — 19 Aug 2019
How to Make a Movie in 12 Days by Fiona Hardy
Hayley Whelan loves everything about movies; she has spent her whole life dreaming of writing and directing her own. When her Grandma, with whom she’d been writing her horror movie…
Review — 27 May 2019
Playing with Collage by Jeannie Baker
As a kid, I spent hours poring over every tiny detail in Jeannie Baker’s books. I’d get excited when I recognised a particular piece of material or plant she’d used…
Review — 22 Apr 2019
Don't Follow Vee by Oliver Phommavanh
Vee wakes up every morning to her mum snapping a picture to put on her Instagram account ‘The Chronicles of Vee’ – an account her mum started when she was…
Review — 27 May 2019
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History is a children’s version of Bruce Pascoe’s incredibly popular Dark Emu – a book that explains that Australian Aboriginals at the time of British…
Review — 26 Mar 2019
Good Selfie: Tips & Tools for Teens to Nail Life by Turia Pitt & Freda Chiu
Turia Pitt is a motivational speaker, athlete and burns survivor, and she has written her latest book in such a completely friendly, casual way that from the very first sentence…
Review — 22 Apr 2019
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
For five years Tyler has trained hard to earn the privilege of hand-picking his own team of cadets at the Aurora Academy. The night before the big draft he can’t…
Review — 25 Feb 2019
Squirm by Carl Hiassen
Billy hasn’t seen his father, Dennis, since he was three. His mum refuses to talk about him and Dennis is a huge mystery in Billy’s and his sister Belinda’s lives…