Emily Gale
Emily Gale is a former Readings bookseller and prize manager. She is the author of a number of children’s and young adult books.
Blog post — 20 Nov 2012
Round-Up of Kids' and YA Books for November
Halloween may be a distant, sugary-hazed memory, but the children’s and YA line-up this month has a horrifying theme - from the creepy to the downright silly.
Blog post — 1 Nov 2012
New Adult: passing fad or the missing genre?
Since the Young Adult boom, the genre has been struggling to manage its broad reach: is New Adult the answer?
Last year I heard about a genre called New Adult…
Blog post — 25 Oct 2012
Spooky Fun: our picks for children's and YA books this Halloween
In Australia we’re still divided about how to celebrate Halloween, or whether to bother at all, but this collection of spooky books contains something for everyone, from pre-schoolers to teens.
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Blog post — 30 Oct 2012
Q&A with Jen Storer, author of Truly Tan
Jen Storer is the author of children’s books
The first book in your
That is entirely right. Except that Tan is more like the Famous Five simply because that was…
Review — 28 Oct 2012
Truly Tan: Book 1 by Jen Storer
Tan is the youngest of four very different girls: bossy Emerald, girly Amber, Goth-in-the-making Rose and, finally, Tan, who loves adventure, new words and making the most out of being…
Blog post — 17 Oct 2012
Ask a Bookseller: What books are best for kids learning to read?
This week the Children’s Buyer at our Carlton store recommends some great books for children who are learning to read.
‘Some of the reading scheme books we’ve seen are functional…
Blog post — 10 Oct 2012
Round-Up of October Kids' and Young Adult Books
Every book is a journey, and in this month’s round-up we get transported through space and time and believe in impossible things.
Jaclyn Moriarty’s A Corner of White, teetering…
Review — 2 Oct 2012
Brave Squish Rabbit by Katherine Battersby
[[battersby]]In the follow-up to Squish Rabbit, Squish lets us in on some of his biggest fears. Squish doesn’t like storms and he especially doesn’t like the dark. (To this…
Blog post — 2 Oct 2012
The Way We Work: Nick Earls and Terry Whidbourne on Word Hunters
How do authors and illustrators work together? Author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidbourne discuss their relationship during the making of
NE: From the start, I felt as if I…
Review — 30 Sep 2012
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
As risky as it is to return to a cherished childhood read, Charlotte Sometimes gave as much to me as an adult as it did at age 10.
The story…