Kim Gruschow
Kim Gruschow is the co-manager of Readings St Kilda
Blog post — 22 Apr 2018
Jo Sandhu wins the 2018 Readings Children's Book Prize
We’re thrilled to reveal that the winner of this year’s Readings Children’s Book Prize is Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile by Jo Sandhu!
Established in 2014, the Readings Children’s…
Review — 28 May 2018
All of This Is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor
A group of teens has become completely obsessed with the novel Undertow and they are absolutely delighted to form a close friendship with YA author Fatima Ro after meeting her…
Review — 26 Mar 2018
The Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton
I absolutely adored Leslye Walton’s extraordinary debut novel, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, and was so excited to read this long-awaited witchy follow up.
Nine generations…
Blog post — 25 Feb 2018
The Readings Children's Book Prize shortlist 2018
We’re very excited to reveal this year’s shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize.
This Prize celebrates exciting new voices in Australian children’s literature. This year’s six shortlisted titles…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
The 2017 winner of the Newbery Medal is available to Australian readers in a new paperback edition.
Xan is a good and kind witch. Each year she makes a journey…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
Following a plane crash, four children are left to fend for themselves alone in the Amazon. They forage for fruit and bugs to eat, find shelter and build a raft…
Review — 24 Jul 2017
The City of Secret Rivers by Jacob Sager Weinstein
She has only just moved to London, but things are already very weird and very dangerous for Hyacinth. After a bizarre incident involving tap water, Hyacinth’s mother has been kidnapped…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
Bigfoot, Tobin and Me by Melissa Savage
Lemonade Liberty Witt is a sweet-toothed, sassy, ten-and-three-quarters year-old who has been sent from the city to live with her grandfather in the small, Bigfootobsessed town of Willow Creek following…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
The Adventures of John Blake by Philip Pullman & Fred Fordham
Celebrated author Phillip Pullman’s first graphic novel is a pacy, action-packed adventure. Fred Fordham’s accompanying artwork has a classic feel and their collaboration is cinematic.
The Mary Alice is a…
Review — 27 Mar 2017
My Pictures After the Storm by Eric Veille
This bright French picture book is a hilarious off-the-wall collection of double-page before and after spreads. After lunch, bread becomes crumbs, after magic, a handsome prince is a frog, and…