Reading for pleasure

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is actually ‘new authors you discovered in 2024’ but I feel like I’ve talked about my 2024 reads to death already, so I went back…

Last month, I attended a brilliant talk at YALC with Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis from Hashtag BLAK: ‘Ten steps YA readers and reviewers can take to support underrepresented authors.’…

What is ‘reading for pleasure?’ It’s a fact that reading for pleasure is one of the key indicators of success for children. In other words, children who enjoy reading and…

Found yourself in a library but you either don’t have a library card for this particular library don’t have a library card at all do have a library card but…

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post called Discovering middle grade and YA books in the library when you don’t know what you’re looking for and it…

I posted recently about my experience of raising my son as a passionate reader. One of the things I did to help foster that love of reading was surround him…

As an editor who adores books, raising a reader is really important to me and I’m super lucky that my six year old, Caeden, loves books. But it’s not really down…