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 | Mar 17, 2021 | Round-ups
We’re into March now, and in Australia, we’re living in a COVID-normal world of check-ins, tests, and social distancing. Yet we are still reading, and our numbers for younger readers and young adult books are tracking to be fairly similar. We had ten reviews for...
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 | Jan 20, 2021 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Welcome to 2021, and the 2020 wrap up post, which also includes December in its count. In December 2020, we had four children’s books read, and sixteen young adult books! So a bit of a reversal, but we still have more reviews for children’s books in 2020 overall – 170...
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 –...
