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 — 11 Jun 2015
June highlights in children's and young adult books
A word that keeps coming up when we talk about YA is resilience. Melbourne writers Fiona Wood (Wildlife) and Gabrielle Williams (The Guy, The Girl, The Artist…
Blog post — 4 Jun 2015
Recommendations and favourite quotes from Reading Matters 2015
Last week I had my first real experience of Reading Matters, the Melbourne YA conference organised by the Centre for Youth Literature. (Previously, I had been the bookseller at…
Review — 27 May 2015
The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones byWill Mabbitt
Fond memories of reading Andy Stanton’s inventive and hysterically daft Mr Gum series as a family were brought to mind from the very beginning of this pirate adventure, which hurtles…
Review — 23 Jun 2015
The Bad Guys: Episode 1 by Aaron Blabey
Aaron Blabey has made a name for himself with his highly original picture books. His bold humour and eye-popping, mischievous artwork are a perfect foil for unexpectedly tender moments and…
Review — 23 Jun 2015
Frankie and Joely by Nova Weetman
This is a novel that, in the current market, might be called ‘quiet’. For me it was as much of a page-turner as anything you’ll find on the YA shelves…
Blog post — 25 Jun 2015
The beginner's guide to Liane Moriarty
When it comes to Liane Moriarty, I’ve been the ultimate fanwoman since 2009, the year that What Alice Forgot was published. That’s just my overblown way of saying that I’ve…
Blog post — 7 May 2015
May highlights in children's and young adult books
As I compose this sentence, election fever is about to come to the boil in my home country and so, in the spirit of democracy, I asked my colleagues to…
Blog post — 15 Apr 2015
April Round-up of Kids' & YA Books
This month I’ll begin in the middle, for a change, with a crop of great new books to feed your eager 9+ year olds.
For kids who like something out…
Blog post — 1 Apr 2015
Children's books to tackle childhood worries
As adults with complex worries of our own we can forget what scared us as children, how large those things loomed when a single day seemed so long. Here are…
Blog post — 16 Mar 2015
Kids' and young adult highlights for March
Recently there has been a more open dialogue about what it’s like to live with anxiety, which has made me think about the worries we experience as children and how…