On Monday's Monday Music Matters, local author Melissa Garside dropped into the studio to talk about her brand-new release — "Lexie Moon & the Remote Control Catastrophe."

It's the third standalone book in her junior-fiction series (illustrated by Lauren Mullinder): young inventor Lexie builds a scrap-box remote-control car out of tomato-sauce bottles, old cans and bits of bike tyre… only for her souped-up transmitter to vanish on race day, sending the whole challenge spinning gloriously out of control. Perfect for independent readers aged 7–10, and a lovely read-aloud for the littlies.