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,...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Feb 17, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome to 2021, and the return of the monthly roundups. What a year it has been, with fires, floods and COVID. With 2021 starting with much uncertainty, I wasn’t sure what the numbers would bring. So it is a slow start to the year, perhaps due to fatigue with...
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...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Apr 11, 2020 | Round-ups
Welcome to the March Round Up for Children’s and Young Adult books. We are standing steady with 6 books for young adults read and reviewed, and 8 for children and younger readers. We’ve had a few new names this month, but still fewer books here, and sometimes,...