by Ashleigh Meikle | Sep 6, 2020 | Round-ups
August saw yet another boom in books for children, with an increase from last month by eleven from two to thirteen in young adult books. So far this year, we’ve had double the number of children’s books than young adult books. To further break that down, young adult...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Aug 19, 2020 | Round-ups
July had an explosion in reviews for children’s books– twenty-five–but a fall in young adult reviews–down to two. One book reviewed has been entered several times since it came out. This is an interesting trend, seeing what books, genres and audiences are read more at...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Jul 15, 2020 | Round-ups
June saw an increase in the number of children’s books read – 23 reviews entered, and roughly the same stats for young adult – 9 reviews entered. A cursory glance shows these reviews are diverse in genre, form, plot and themes. With so many to choose from, I’ll start...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Jun 17, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the May 2020 Round Up. We were still in some kind of lockdown, but things started to ease a little – we could go to the shops and get take away, but were still working from home and I think learning from home. Heading into June, things are getting much...
by Ashleigh Meikle | May 13, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the April 2020 Round Up, where we were all reading amidst a pandemic, our lives suddenly shifted from going to work, to the shops or coffee for catch-ups, to school, to uni or just out in general for various activities was very quickly shut down, and we...
