Cannonball Read 11

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What do you need more? A good book or a good hug? How about a book ABOUT a hug?

I Need a Hug by Aaron Blabey

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I Need a Hug is a year-round reading book, but also a great book for the upcoming holiday of President’s Day! (Oh wait, wrong kind of snake). Kidding aside, it is a sweet Valentine’s Day book. That “prickly thing” (a porcupine) wants a hug! Just a little cuddle! But all the other characters (Joe and Ken and such) rhyme their very strong No! Along with running away. Quickly! But at the end they are all just as quickly coming back! Do they want a hug after all? (Enter another critter looking for a kiss). Spoiler: It is an obvious ending. […]

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1/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

26 ways to say Love

L Is for Love: A Heartfelt Alphabet by Greg Paprocki

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L is for Love: A Heartfelt Alphabet is one of those odd little gems that looks like it is from 1950 but is very 2018. The illustrations show you the alphabet of love and friendship. The illustrations are casually modern. Nothing is forced, and things flow with the diversity of people (bi-racial copy, people of color). In fact, the P is for Poetry shows the girl reciting “How do I love thee?” (Or I assume she is…. She is kneeling, with paper in hand, boy in front of her. However, Greg Paprocki you goofed by having the soda pop/straw near […]

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1/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Biking in a Winter Wonderland

Chirri & Chirra, the Snowy Day by Kaya Doi

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The Chirri and Chirra books are surreal. You can hear the translation as sometimes the wording does not flow naturally on the ears. You will enjoy the story, but you probably should suspend belief. If you are looking for realism, Kaya Doi’s books are probably not what you are looking for. However, if you like a casual, somewhat natural mix of fantastic and realism, the Chirri and Chirra books are perfect. And the illustrations are very sweet with soft, happy colors, a lot of detail not immediately related to the story, and old-school with classical touches. Chirri & Chirra, the […]

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1/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

A strong finish to this series about magical oppression.

Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, #3) by Jonathan Stroud

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Worth slogging through book two just to get to this one. (And I’m still not convinced my reaction to that book wasn’t just me trying to read it at the wrong time.) This is the third and final book in the original Bartimaeus Trilogy (he wrote a prequel in 2010 but I think I’m going to pass on that one). It takes place three years after the events of The Golem’s Eye. Nathaniel/John Mandrake is high up in government now, in charge of what is essentially the propaganda department, and is currently preoccupied with sniffing out spies and resistance members, […]

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1/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I can’t tell if I have ever read this before, but I feel like I feel like I’ve read it, if that makes sense, because so many people I’ve known through the years have been obsessed with this book. Also, of course, I’ve run in more than one circle that’s been peppered with Little Prince tattoos. Anyway, I wanted to mention how after I read this, I then read about the author, and his story is quite touching and interesting. Just that when he otherwise didn’t have to, and against orders and better judgment, he joined up with the French […]

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1/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Five stars of adorable madness

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

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In 2018 I went on a bucket-list trip to Antarctica and saw penguins. Always a fan of the adorable little birds (I mean, come on, that waddle!), I’ve become sort of obsessed. This new-found penguin mania resulted in a Sphenisciformes-themed Christmas, including a hard copy of the delightful 1938 children’s tale, Mr. Popper’s Penguins. I say delightful, but I might have easily said batshit crazy. I want whatever the Atwater couple was smoking when they wrote this. For context, Mr. Atwater died before publishing Mr. Popper’s Penguins, and his widow submitted it to a couple of publishers after his death. It […]

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1/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Window Books and Mirror Books (or Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose)

Patina (Track - Book 2) by Jason Reynolds

Sunny (Track - Book 3) by Jason Reynolds

Lu (Track - Book 4) by Jason Reynolds

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Last February I read Ghost, the first book in Jason Reynold’s middle grade Track series and enjoyed it immensely though I understood I was definitely not the intended audience.  I had seen Jason Reynolds on The Daily Show, started following him on Twitter, and all that made me want to read his work—all of his work.  He’s a prolific writer, so catching up and keeping up will take some work. Flash forward to mid-December when I discovered a display of the remaining three books in the Track series at my community college’s library—just as I was turning in my final […]

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1/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

“A soft heart only makes it easier for a knife to slip in.”

The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken

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Prosper Redding is of the Massacusetts Reddings: a very rich, very privileged family whose lineage goes back to the pilgrims. Prosper is a bit of a black sheep, caring mostly about art and his twin sister Prue.  His grandmother, a severe matriarchal type, seems to particularly despise him, probably because he doesn’t do much to contribute to the Redding Name. Even he couldn’t guess how much he was despised, though — until the day of a local fair, when he is dragged down to the family dungeon (yes, dungeon), exposed to a magical book only he is able to read, then […]

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1/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |


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