‘A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.’ – Franz Kafka I asked some of Australia’s top children’s and teen authors to share a book that they read as a kid that changed their life in some way. Perhaps it showed them another way of being that they’d not considered before, or inspired them to make a positive difference or to become a reader or a writer. One book that had that impact on me was My Side of the Mountain and you can read one of my favourite authors, Scot Gardner, talking about it below.…