How did picture book sales fare during lockdown?
In her final op-ed as Books+Publishing’s Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh looks at how the sales of new picture books—the most tactile of reading experiences—fared during lockdown, and recommends a few...
Light bulb moment: why stories of women in STEM are important
Books+Publishing's Junior columnist Adele Walsh reflects how far we've come and how far we still need to go when it comes to the representation of women in STEM in books...
Online programs to get young people reading and writing at home
Junior columnist Adele Walsh shares some of the best online literary programming for young people that has sprung up since the Covid-19 lockdown began. The realisation that we would all...
CYL may be gone but YA can still thrive through grassroots advocacy
In her first op-ed as Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh investigates the vacuum left by the shuttering of the Centre for Youth Literature last year, and what can be...