It’s that time of year, when we ask the Your Kid’s Next Read community to share their young readers’ favourite reads of the previous 12 months. This year, to make it easier to find what you’re looking for, we’ve broken our list up into categories share multiple lists...
Your Kid’s Favourite Read 2023: Middle Grade
It’s that time of year, when we ask the Your Kid’s Next Read community to share their young readers’ favourite reads of the previous 12 months. This year, to make it easier to find what you’re looking for, we’ve broken our list up into categories share multiple lists...
Your Kid’s Favourite Read 2023: Junior Fiction
It's that time of year, when we ask the Your Kid’s Next Read community to share their young readers’ favourite reads of the previous 12 months. This year, to make it easier to find what you're looking for, we've broken our list up into categories share multiple lists...
Your Kid’s Favourite Read 2023: Chapter Books
Each year, we ask the Your Kid's Next Read community to share their young readers’ favourite reads of the previous 12 months. Last year, we came up with one epic 'Best Books of 2022' list (see it here), but this year the group has grown in size by thousands again, so...
Your Kid’s Favourite Read 2023: Picture Books
The Your Kid's Next Read community is the size of a regional town these days – 31,000+ members. Each year, we ask the group to share their young readers' favourite reads of the previous 12 months. Some of these books were published in 2023, some were not. One of the...
Order signed copies of A.L. Tait books
It's that time of year when our minds turn to books as gifts! If you're looking for Christmas, end-of-year, graduation, festive season or holiday gifts I'm here to help, with signed copies of any or all A.L. Tait novels awaiting your order! That's right. Signed...
The moment I first thought about being a writer
How do readers grow into writers? It's a big question, with many parts, and it gnawed away at me for a while until I decided to do something about it. Over on the Your Kid's Next Read Substack today, you'll find an epic post I wrote for our paid subscribers that...
Writing Family History: Finding the Fiction in the Facts
"I'm writing my family history." Whenever I teach a writing workshop for adults, as I did this week ('Writing Through The Messy Middle'), I ask what people are writing and there is invariably at least one person who is creating a book based on family history. Our...
The best children’s book series you’ve never read
My dear friend Allison Rushby, the third Musketeer on Team Your Kid's Next Read, has a new book out this week – her eighth (or is it ninth?) in the past 12 months. The third book in her Miss Penny Dreadful trilogy for lower middle-grade readers, it's called The...