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Children's and YA book reviews and interviews

Welcome to the new Junior newsletter

Mid-pandemic feels like a strange time to be revamping our Junior newsletter, but it also feels more vital than ever to spotlight our children’s book... Read more
 
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CYL may be gone but YA can still thrive through grassroots advocacy x

In her first op-ed as Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh investigates the vacuum left by the shuttering of the Centre for Youth Literature last... Read more
 

 

‘Your family is okay’: Bernadette Green on ‘Who’s Your Real Mum?’

Who’s Your Real Mum? (Scribble, illus by Anna Zobel) is the debut picture book from Bernadette Green, inspired by the real-life questions her own children... Read more
 
 

The End of the World is Bigger Than Love
Davina Bell, Text, June 2020, reviewed by Karys McEwen
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Davina Bell’s first young adult novel is unlike anything else written for the target audience. This becomes clear almost immediately upon beginning the book, when... Read more
 
 

Henry Turnip
Chloe Jasmine Harris, Walker Books, June 2020, reviewed by Romi Sharp
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Henry Turnip is a panda who likes strawberry jam sandwiches with the crusts cut off, reading about the ocean, and his seven sets of blue-striped overalls. He dislikes mess, too... Read more
 
 

Change Starts with Us
Sophie Beer, Little Hare, June 2020, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
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This brightly coloured and accessible book sets out to empower young children and familiarise them with ways in which even the littlest of us can have an impact our world.... Read more
 
 

Eloise and the Bucket of Stars
Janeen Brian, Walker Books, June 2020, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
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For nearly 13 years Eloise Pail has dreamed of a family and life outside the orphanage. But year after year Eloise is left under the watchful gaze of Sister Hortense,... Read more
 
 

What Zola did on Monday
Melina Marchetta, illus by Deb Hudson, Puffin, June 2020, reviewed by Angela Crocombe
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Melina Marchetta is a novelist we normally associate with award-winning young adult fiction, and more recently her adult novels Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil and The Place on Dalhousie.... Read more
 
 

The Dark Tide
Alicia Jasinska, Penguin, June 2020, reviewed by Catherine Moller
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The island city of Caldella is sinking, and the only way to hold back the tide is through an annual ritual sacrifice performed by the cold, distant Witch Queen. When... Read more
 

 

 

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