Bianca Looney
Bianca Looney is a former Readings Kids bookseller
Review — 1 Aug 2021
Kitty Quest by Phil Corbett
Perigold and Woolfrik are a quixotic duo starting out in the questing business. These would-be do-gooders encounter the no-so-good wizard, Dagzobad, the perfect villain, who without much help, manages to…
Review — 2 Aug 2020
Across the Risen Sea by Bren MacDibble
Neoma and Jaguar are a team. They always do things together and dream of becoming the best fishing crew and salvagers on the whole of the inland sea. Self-subsisting and…
Review — 5 May 2020
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
From the author of Out of My Mind comes an incredible story of a girl living in two worlds. Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced and hardly get along. She lives…
Review — 29 Mar 2020
Wink by Rob Harrell
High school, Year 7, everything is meant to be normal, right? But not for Ross Maloy. With a sudden and horrifying diagnosis Ross becomes the ‘cancer kid’. A rare, aggressive…
Review — 23 Feb 2020
The Threads of Magic by Alison Croggon
Long ago in Clarel city, witches were held in high esteem. But now witchcraft is outlawed, and it is rumoured that soul-stealing ‘Spectres’ are gaining power. Pip lives with his…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
The Watcher in the Garden by Joan Phipson
The slightly sinister title was what initially drew me in to this unusual thriller. Long after finishing the final pages, its unsettling after-effects still linger.
Sixteen-year-old Kitty (Catherine) struggles with…
Review — 28 Mar 2021
Olivia by Ian Falconer
Have you ever been woken up by a prodigious drum solo at 5:00am, or found yourself receiving cooking advice from a pint-sized gourmand? Do you have a little person in…
