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Your Kid’s Next Read is a newsletter, a podcast and a community all working for one purpose – to find the perfect ‘next book’ for children of all ages and reading abilities.
Your Kid’s Next Read is brought to you by author and teacher-librarian Megan Daley, author Allison Tait and author Allison Rushby.
At a time when books have a lot of competition for young people’s attentions, we aim to help parents, caregivers, educators, teacher-librarians, and other interested parties find the right book at the right time to keep the young readers in their lives on the reading path.
We believe it takes a village to grow a reader, and we’d love you to join ours!
Where to begin
Our monthly newsletter is always free to read. It’s a round-up of the best of all that Your Kid’s Next Read has to offer. You’ll find updates and insights from Team YKNR, tips and advice, book reviews from Megan Daley, some of our favourite threads from the Facebook community, tips for young writers, and, of course, our Big Bookmail Giveaway.
All subscribers are automatically entered into the random draw to win our Bookmail pack each month.
Recent newsletters include:
Winners and winners
This year, the CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) is celebrating it’s 80th year (cue: parade) and last week, the CBCA kicked off Awards Season 2025 in the children’s publishing world with the announcement of the 2025 CBCA Notables.
Getting real about reading
The year got real all of a sudden, didn’t it? By now most Australian kids are back at school, as are their teachers, and parents and carers are getting their heads around the deluge of notes and emails that accompany the start of term one.
YKNR Fave Reads 2024
It’s that time of year! A time of End-of-Year concerts, performances, rehearsals, speech days, tired kids and, always, the knowledge that beach days are just around the corner.
The social side of books
We tend to think of reading as something we do alone, absorbed, shutting out the world. And it’s true that one of the most satisfying aspects of a great book is its ability to take you somewhere else.
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Why we offer paid subscriptions
For $5 / month, or $50 / year, you have full access to our subscriber-only posts and resources, our full archive, and the freedom to post comments and join the community.
Paid subscribers also have our permission to reproduce, with credit, our content for school or classroom purposes (eg: newsletter or handout).
Our paid content brings together our expert knowledge and advice in concise formats not available anywhere else, and a paid subscription is a practical way to support our efforts to promote children’s literacy and literature.
Founding members ($100) also receive a YKNR book bag – teacher-librarian approved!
What you can expect as a paid subscriber
At least one bonus post emailed each month, plus access to the full archive.
These may include extra book reviews from Megan, behind-the-scenes updates from the team, curated book lists, writing tips for kids, or highly practical resources for home, classroom or library use. We’ll be looking at adding exclusive chats down the track as we navigate our way through Substack, but we’ll take feedback from you, our community.
Some recent examples:
How do readers grow into writers?
How to cull your home library collection
The Author/Illustrator Visit Checklist
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