Children’s and YA Round Up: March 2021

Children’s and YA Round Up: March 2021

A quarter of the way through the year, and we’re back with the round up! This month we had 23 reviews for books aimed at children and younger readers, and 9 for young adult readers. Each category had quite a variety that it was hard to choose which ones to highlight....
Children and Young Adult Round Up: September 2020

Children and Young Adult Round Up: September 2020

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...
Children and Young Adult Round Up: May 2020

Children and Young Adult Round Up: May 2020

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...
Speculative Fiction Round-up: March 2020

Speculative Fiction Round-up: March 2020

Hello everyone, and can I just say what a stressful last few weeks we’ve all been having. My reading is way down and I’m guessing this is the same for many people. We had 8 reviews linked in March and 7 books, so thank you to those who have managed to read...
January 2020  Round Up: Children’s and YA

January 2020 Round Up: Children’s and YA

Welcome to the first monthly round up for 2020 of the children’s and young adult books read for the Australian Writers Challenge. In the Young Adult category, across all genres, we had eight reviews, and six reviews for children and younger readers. That’s fifteen in...