If you remember the first book you finished all by yourself, you probably remember the feeling more than the plot: that little surge of pride, perhaps a buoyant realization you…
Help for Struggling Readers: 8 e-Reader Benefits
A purpose-built e-reader is not just another device. Its single-focus minimizes distractions while supporting the physical reading process and optimizing engagement.
5 Reasons Why Historical Fiction Books are Good for Kids
Historical fiction has a number of benefits for children, from early readers through to young adults. Stories set against past events and time periods open up reading enjoyment, contextual learning and…
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Max Booth Future Sleuth
Today, I’m handing over the blog reigns to a group of voracious readers and up-and-coming book reviewers from Years 3 and 4 at Girton Grammar School in Bendigo. Maddi, Jacob,…
All Things Sweet… Well, Almost
Easter seemed like the perfect opportunity to browse our books for series that feature chocolate and sugar! Perhaps not surprisingly, the sweet spot for the baking-themed series is the 8+…
The Colourful Appeal of Graphic Novels
What is a graphic novel? Graphic novels are, by the simplest definition, book-length comics. Sometimes they tell a single, continuous narrative from first page to last; sometimes they are collections…
Fairy Tales Reconstructed—Past, Present and Future
Once upon a time, long, long ago…long before there were books written for reluctant readers, books about social issues, or distinct markets such as ‘tween’ or ‘young adult’…long ago, there…
Reading Every Word
Book 2 in the ‘Every’ Series Today, Cereal Readers talks with YA author, Ellie Marney, about grunge characters, writing romantic scenes, and scouting murder locations for her latest book in…
How to Choose Your Own Ever After…
Cereal Readers is pleased to welcome a new Australian series out this month, called Choose Your Own Ever After. The series has been written for girls aged 10-14 years with…
I and Love and You – Colleen Hoover’s ‘Slammed’ Series
Colleen Hoover blends music and poetry, humour and heartache, in her beguiling and romantic ‘Slammed’ series. It’s the story of Layken and Will, mature beyond their years due to the…
Give a Child a Book – and Give Them the World!
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside them, and it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world.”– Neil…
“There is no hook turn at Brunswick Road…”!
Friday night was the Castlemaine book launch party for Ellie Marney’s first young adult novel, Every Breath (Allen and Unwin). The official launch was at Readings in Carlton the week…