Your Kid's Next Read With Allison Tait and Megan Daley

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Your Kid's Next Read With Allison Tait and Megan Daley episodes

December 02, 2025 YKNR 231: 10 minutes with Peter Helliar
Allison chats to popular comedian and author Peter Helliar about his new junior fiction series ‘Detective Galileo’, playing with words and founding his own publishing company in primary school.
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42 min
November 25, 2025 YKNR 230: 10 minutes with Helen Dallimore
Allison chats to musical theatre superstar Helen Dallimore about her debut middle-grade novel ‘The Hits and Misses of Melody Moss’, her multi-faceted career as an actor, singer, director and writer, and drawing on memories to find her character’s voice.
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36 min
November 18, 2025 YKNR 229: 10 minutes with Stuart Wilson
Allison chats to bestselling author Stuart Wilson about ‘The Lost Book’, the second book in his 113th Assistant Librarian series, expanding a world, and encouraging kids to spend more time in the library.
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34 min
November 11, 2025 YKNR 228: 10 minutes with Katrina Nannestad
Allison chats to award-winning author Katrina Nannestad about her three new books, creativity and meeting new characters.
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44 min
November 04, 2025 YKNR 227: Books to gift to kids who ‘don’t read’
A book for every kid – that’s the YKNR aim this festive season. Megan and Allison make the case to gift books to every kid you know – particularly the ones who ‘don’t like reading’ – with advice for choosing the right book, ‘safe bet’ book recommendations and tips for encouraging kids to open the pages, not just the present.
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44 min
October 28, 2025 YKNR 226: A Bookmail Blizzard
With festive season preparations heating up, Allison and Megan are bringing you a storm of exciting bookmail titles to help you keep your gift-giving cool.
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44 min
October 21, 2025 YKNR 225: 10 minutes with Sarah Giddy.
Allison chats to Sarah Giddy about creating her debut illustrated middle-grade fantasy novel ‘Flight of the Drakkonbarq’, her path to publication and creating worlds in unexpected places.
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38 min
October 14, 2025 YKNR 224: Big Concepts In Kids' Books.
Books for children and young adults often tackle the big, complex ideas that make us who we are, and they do it in age-appropriate ways. But how? Megan and Allison explore the secrets children's authors use to balance accessibility with depth – and why story always comes first.
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38 min
October 07, 2025 YKNR 223: 10 minutes with Tim Winton.
Allison chats to bestselling, award-winning author Tim Winton about ‘Ningaloo: Australia's Wild Wonder’, his first picture book in 20 years, illustrated by Cindy Lane – and his best tips for young writers.
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41 min
September 30, 2025 YKNR 222: Boys and Reading.
Megan and Allison are joined by parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson and author Matt Stanton for a discussion about boys and reading in the face of recent headlines about declining literacy levels and engagement in reading for pleasure.
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52 min

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Real talk about raising readers from author Allison Tait and educator-author Megan Daley, co-founders of Your Kid’s Next Read. With trusted advice and expert recommendations on books for children…