March 12, 2025

My favourite local bookshop has had a ‘glow-up’!! Congratulations @berkelouwbookshornsby 🎉👏🎉 It is wonderfully ...
February 26, 2025

Loved hanging with the cool kids at @cbcaustralia @cbcansw Night of the Notables. Congratulations ...
March 17, 2024

Ladies who lunch! Can't wait to lunch with these two - Emily Gale and Nova Weetman - and chat about all things ...
September 16, 2020

Magnolia Moon makes me wish I was 9 again simply because I’d love to call her my best friend. She is a delightful, ...
August 11, 2020

Picture books and verse novels – both look easy until you try to write them. It’s true what they say – every word ...
August 3, 2020

Skylab. Memories… Like McKinlay’s central character, Frankie, I was 11 when the anticipation of Skylab hurtling to ...
July 7, 2020

Bren MacDibble is no stranger to the CBCA shortlist. In 2018, her novel How to Bee took home the Book Of The Year ...
May 3, 2020

I've only just started my annual exploration of the CBCA shortlist in the Younger Readers category for 2020, and ...
April 1, 2020

A couple of years ago, Tristan Bancks received well-deserved accolades for Two Wolves. For many years, I had been ...
November 28, 2019

I must admit, when this was suggested for our Y6 Book Club, I was a little dubious. Wolves and vikings aren't ...
October 22, 2019

Shouting at the rain was the book shared at the most recent Book Club. As with Sick Bay, this book explores ...
September 10, 2019

Sick Bay, by Nova Weetman, was on my radar after it kept popping up on my social media feeds with rave reviews. I ...