by Ashleigh Meikle | Sep 15, 2021 | Reviews, Round-ups
With much of the country in various lockdowns, in particular in NSW and Victoria, I was again interested in seeing what our trends were – did readers lean more to books for younger readers or young adult, did they lean towards a certain genre or is there less...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Aug 18, 2021 | Reviews, Round-ups
July saw three states plunged back into lockdowns, making up half the population. Greater Sydney and several of its surrounding regions are still in lockdown, and I had wondered how this might alter our reading habits. In books for those under about thirteen – for the...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Jul 21, 2021 | Round-ups
We’re halfway through the year, and a brief look at the stats shows that Children’s and Younger readers up to middle grade has had the most entries – though some middle grade books have been classed as Young Adult – the argument could be made that some a borderline....
by Ashleigh Meikle | Jun 16, 2021 | Round-ups
We are almost halfway through the year, and the number of young adult books read this month has been on trend with previous months -with twenty-one children’s books read, and thirteen reviews for young adult books were entered. Most of the books were different,...
by Ashleigh Meikle | May 19, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome to another edition of the Children’s and Young Adult Round Up! Another month gone, and many more books read with some interesting statistics. We were down to twenty from twenty-three for kids’ books and had eight young adult entries. So in terms of numbers,...
