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Dani Solomon

Dani Solomon is the manager of Readings Kids.

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The Surface Trials
by H.M. Waugh

Reviewed by
Dani Solomon, Apr 2025

It’s reductive to say The Surface Trials is like The Hunger Games with competitive empathy instead of murders, but I just said it so let me justify it. Outside of the fact that yes, The Surface Trials is about a…

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ABC Disability
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Always Was, Always Will Be
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The Rainbow Serpent (50th anniversary edition)
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To and Fro
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Ask Aunty: Seasons
by Aunty Munya Andrews, Charmaine Ledden-Lewis (illus.)

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Songlines: First Knowledges for Younger Readers
by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly, Blak Douglas (illus.)

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Belonging
by Jeannie Baker

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Recent blog posts by Dani Solomon

Kids
20 Dec 2022

Dani Solomon’s funny favourites of 2022

Our Readings Kids shop manager, Dani Solomon, picks her favourite funny books of the year. This is an eclectic collection of titles, ranging from picture books all the way through to fantasy, with plenty of manga in between, and (of…
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Kids
14 Nov 2019

The best middle reader books of 2019

Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 middle reader books of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular…
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Kids
16 Oct 2019

Frances Hardinge’s books ranked by scariness

Readings Kids bookseller Dani Solomon is a Frances Hardinge super fan. We asked her to rank the award-winning British author’s books by their scariness and here is the result. The following books are all ranked from least scary to most…
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Kids
9 Sep 2015

Reflecting on the final Discworld novel

Longtime Terry Pratchett fan Dani Solomon writes about the bittersweet experience of reading the final Discworld novel. (Please note, there are some spoilers in here.) A few weeks ago I held an unread Discworld novel in my hands for what…
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Books
24 Mar 2015

Three authors that remind me of Terry Pratchett

In an attempt to cheer myself up and make myself feel a little better since my literary hero Sir Terry Pratchett passed away, I thought I’d list a few authors whose work Terry has influenced, or who simply remind me…
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News
16 Mar 2015

A tribute to Terry Pratchett

Stop all the clacks. An entire world ended last Friday: warring countries; vibrant, huge, dirty cities; small villages settled by people with busy work-filled lives all gone. Individuals perished too: a sharp-as-nails old woman and her wicked friend; a straight-as-an-arrow…
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Books
11 Jan 2015

Dani Solmon reflects on Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss

I have to confess that even though I do own a cat I am not – as I discovered in the early days of my cat ownership – a cat person. Not at all. Not in any way. And perhaps…
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Books
16 Dec 2013

Why I want my sister to read Terry Pratchett

Bookseller Dani Solomon tells us why she’s gifted her sister Terry Pratchett’s series about a witch named Tiffany Aching. My sister turned 11 this year. She’s an excellent human with a wicked sense of humour who very much knows her…
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