by Ashleigh Meikle | Dec 16, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the November 2020 round up. During November, we had sixteen reviews in the children’s and younger readers’ category – and only two reviewers! I know I always have a fair few in this category but was quite surprised that there was only one other reviewer –...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Nov 18, 2020 | Round-ups
We’re coming to the end of a very hard year. COVID restrictions are still part of our lives in various ways across the world, and as we head into summer, it is still quite cold – good reading weather. As I write this, not far from the beach, I have jeans on, and a...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Oct 21, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the September edition of the Children’s and Young Adult Round-up. In September, we had twenty -one books entered for the children’s audience, from picture books to middle grade novels, and five for young adult books, with one familiar author cropping up yet...
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...