Episodes

We’ve been busy!  We have four books for you and two fascinating interviews: author and English teacher T C Shelly PLUS award-winning author and Children’s Laureate (2020-21) Ursula Dubosarsky.

Award-winning author Shivaun Plozza and her new middle-grade novel, The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars, and award-nominated Kate O’Donnell and her new novel, This One is Ours.

We review hot new debut novel The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor, Fiona Hardy’s latest release and the conclusion to Cressida Cowell’s bestselling series The Wizard of Once.  Plus we interview Amelia Mellor and Lian Tanner, author of A Clue for Clara.

WARNING: You may find us gushing in this episode… We’ve got two beautiful, magical books, a cookbook for kids and one about a detective chicken.  Plus fascinating interviews with two stars in the Australian children’s book scene.

Can’t get any more bumper than this… We have three new release books for you this week and three interviews, including Penguin Random House Young Readers’ Publishing Director, Laura Harris!

We’re celebrating 80 years of Puffin! This week, we have three new release books for you, Joke Boy stops by to review Sherlock Bones 2: The Sea Creature Feature and we have three interviews, including Penguin Random House Young Readers’ Publishing Director, Laura Harris!

It’s Groundhog Day in Lockdown Town but the Mavens are marching on. In this episode, we review four great books and interview two amazing Melbourne authors.  We also talk graphic novels and how quitting is good for the soul…

We’re back after a lovely break, although we’re in even worse COVID lockdown than before.  But we’ve got four wonderful books for you and a chat with Lucinda Gifford!

It’s our 18 month anniversary and our podcast is now middle-aged (60th episode, yahoo!).  We chat to two wonderful authors and the Mini Mavens pop in to offer their opinions on some new-release junior fiction – The League of Llamas books 3 and 4 by Aleesah Darlison and Hodgepodge by Lili Wilkinson.

We discuss how we as author mums can support diversity; the importance of teaching kids history and #ownvoices books; and what we learned from R L Stine and Neil Gaiman’s Masterclasses, especially about the beginnings of books.