Category: Reviews & Recommendations

• 5 Fabulous Books About Bookshops

  

  10 August is Love Your Bookshop Day in Australia. What have you got planned? I’ve waxed lyrical about the magic of bookshops and shared 5 fab books set in bookshops.

  Ali Stegert

  August 9, 2019

  Literary Celebrations, Poetry, Reviews & Recommendations

  #LTBD19, 84 Charing Cross Road, Bookshop love, Debbie Smith Author, Emma Middleton Illustrator, Harry Hartog Booksellers, Liminality, Love Your Bookshop Day, poetry, The Little Paris Bookshop, The Shadow of the Wind, The Thirteenth Tale

• Book Review: The Girl Who Drank The Moon

  

  The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill is one of the freshest stories I’ve read in years. Here’s why…

  Ali Stegert

  September 16, 2017

  Reviews & Recommendations

  books with memorable characters, Christina Moore narrator, Fyrion, Glerk, Luna, lyrical writing, middle grade books with challenging vocabulary, middle grade dark fantasy, middle grade fantasy, Newbery Award, Sorrow Eater, The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill, world building, Xan

• My Favourite Five Reads – 2016

  

  Five books I read and loved in 2016. Maybe you’ll love them too!

  Ali Stegert

  December 3, 2016

  For Readers, Reviews & Recommendations

  Cloudstreet, David Copperfield, Dickens, Echo, End of year reading favourites, Favourite Five, Francis Hardinge, gaslamp fantasy, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, magical realism, Susanna Clarke, The Lie Tree, Tim Winton, tragicomedy, Victorian literature

• STEM – Making Room For Girls

  

  Ada Lovelace has become the patron saint of STEM subjects and careers for girls. Inspire young readers with some STEM stories…

  Ali Stegert

  October 13, 2016

  Reviews & Recommendations

  Ada Lovelace Day, Engibear, Kidlit STEM, STEM books for middle grade readers, The Remarkables, The Remarkables STEM

• Book Review: Gaslamp Anthology

  

  Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy – My review. Plus a funny little aside …

  Ali Stegert

  June 17, 2016

  Reviews & Recommendations

  Ellen Kushner, gaslamp fantasy, illustrators, Kathleen Jennings, Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Tremontaine

• Book Review: Irresistible Kidlit Writing Manual

  

  Last month, I devoted a large chunk of my reading time to one book, a writing craft book called Writing Irresistible Kidlit by editor and former literary agent Mary Kole.

  Ali Stegert

  December 22, 2014

  For Writers, Reviews & Recommendations

  Books about writing, Kidlit, Mary Kole editor, quotes, Writing Irresistible Kidlit

• A Brand-New, Dog-Shaped Hole

  

   “Dog’s lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”  –Agnes Sligh Turnbull There’s a brand new, knackwurst-shaped hole in the Steggy family where our lumpy old Staffy used to fit. Lucy, our beloved canine support staff of 14 years, reached the end of the line last night. She was struggling too hard, and her demise was becoming…

  Ali Stegert

  June 20, 2014

  Pasticcio, Reviews & Recommendations

  children’s books about dogs, dog stories, dog tales, farewelling a pet, last moments with a pet, ode to a dog, Staffy, The Great Dog Bottom Swap