Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani

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Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World has some of the most amazing illustrations (almost all of my rating of five is for them) by Yoshi Yoshitani. They accompany each section of the book (or chapter) that includes a page of text to go along with them. All are short (just the one folktale, legend, myth, etc) but some are a story with the culture it comes from. While others are more of a description of the person/people talked […]

Girls just want to have graphic hyperbole

Girl Juice by Benji Nate

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Benji Nate is one screwed up person and you will love or hate their work. Sometimes at the same time, like Girl Juice was for me.  This graphic novel is broken down into two main sections. The first follows four roommates that might not really like each other, but they do seem to love each other and have each other’s backs. Unless there is a cute boy, or work, or you know, they have something better to do. We mostly focus on Bunny (the self-proclaimed […]

That’s so Sister and Brother

G is for Gross by Greg Paprocki

My Sister Is Super! (A Hello!Lucky Book) by Hello!Lucky

My Brother Is the Best! (a Hello!lucky Book) by Sabrina Moyle and Eunice Moyle

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I will spare you the gross imagery of G is for Gross (except for that cover, sorry), but I am talking about it in case you have a very, very, very (did I say very?) warped sense of humor. Greg Paprocki’s board book is probably best for adults as we cover some of the grossest things in the alphabet. We get vomit, dirty diapers, “ew” (see birds above), and a fart. We even get toxic (for tricky X; toXic is how it is presented). There […]

Keep an eye on your enemies, but watch your family closer

The Keeper by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

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Some days I just cannot get into reading (and you know I like to read). And when that happens I take a break from reading. This happened recently, and when I came back to it, I found the graphic novel,  The Keeper by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes.  I was not sure what I would be reading about. It was not giving away secrets: there is a girl on the cover; some designs look like it could be a combination of adventure and maybe fantasy. […]

A Man and a Muse

Mother Christmas Volume 1: The Muse by Valya Dudycz Lupescu

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I would have preferred reading the completed story of Mother Christmas Volume 1: The Muse, but this first volume is strong, if not open-ended and left me with a few questions. Valya Dudycz Lupescu had a curious mind as a child and that took them into adulthood where they followed mythology, legends, folk and fairy tales to their “why.” AS St. Nicholas and Santa Claus played a role in their lives (St. Nicholas was from their Ukraine heritage  and Santa from their American side) they […]

Being your self, and a little Dude-tude

I Absolutely, Positively Love My Spots by Lid'ya C. Rivera

Dude by Aaron Reynolds

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I have recently seen a book that had a picture of a child with vitiligo, and though it was not the first time I had heard about it (Barbie had a doll, there is the model, etc) but it might have been the first time I had ever seen it in a book that was prominent as it was. That is, until I Absolutely, Positively Love My Spots. Lid’ya C. Rivera themselves has vitiligo and is a “be unashamed of who you are” promoter.  Overall, […]



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