Kidlit Reviews

I review children’s books from picture books to YA for Armadillo Magazine, The Children’s Book Review, iReadBooks Tours and was a former reviewer for the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Here you’ll find links to all of those reviews, guest posts, author interviews and giveaways.

  • World Book Reviews: We All Went on Safari

    My husband is heading to Africa this month for a volunteer work project in Uganda and Kenya. So I planned to take advantage of the opportunity to introduce our toddler to this incredible continent by reading him picture books based in Africa. Easier said than done. Fortunately, I came across We All Went on Safari,…

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  • Introducing World Book Reviews

    As a self-proclaimed “writer with wanderlust”, multiple-continent expat (Europe and Australia so far) and an addicted traveler, I tend to read a lot of books with a strong sense of place or culture. Whenever I visit or move to a new place, I read all the books I can find about, set in or written by…

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  • An Indie Author’s Open Letter of Thanks

    Flickr photo by woodleywonderworks On the anniversary of the release of my first children’s book, I look back and see many reasons to give thanks… Thank you to everyone who knows me and bought my book despite the fact that you had no idea that I write and/or don’t have kids in the age group the book…

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  • Frog on a Blog Reviews Wally The Warm-Weather Penguin

    It’s not every day that someone, let alone a popular children’s book author, picks out one of your very favorite lines in your first book and tells the world it was her favorite too. But yeah, that just happened! Excited to share the latest review from Frog on a Blog – Wally The Warm-Weather Penguin…

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  • Debbie Young’s Reading Life Reviews Wally the Warm-Weather Penguin

    What an honor to be the first children’s book review posted on a new review site, Debbie Young’s Reading Life! Debbie Young is not only an author herself but an active member of the Alliance of Independent Authors as Commissioning Editor of their Author Advice Centre blog and shares marketing advice on her blog, Off The Shelf…

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