Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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May I introduce Tini Malina?

Fancy Dogs by Tini Malina and Tammi Reiche

Selma-The Story of a Stellar Spider by Tini Malina and Mariana Llanos

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The soon to be published (October 2026) picture book, Fancy Dogs by Tini Malina and Tammi Reiche is a cute story for the younger listener and a good just starting out solo reader. I am neither of these types of readers, but still felt this was a good book. Maybe not the best I’ve read, but one that I recommend to dog lovers of all ages. This book came to me via an online reader in an email from the publisher. I would email the […]

Getting your vroom on

Sarabeth's Garage by Melanie Florence and Nadia Alam

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Once again, I found a book that I almost did not read. I was going through online reader copy links and Sarabeth’s Garage by Melanie Florence popped up. It had a funny looking cover, realistic, but overly cartoon based. It was colorful and okay, but not “grabbing me.” Still I was looking at Sarabeth, on the cover, with a garage behind her. It wasn’t bad-looking, okay it definitely looked like this was going to be a “girl power, girls can do anything story” but was […]

It’s kinda your mothers Cinderella

Cinderella: (Original Brothers Grimm Version) by Brothers Grimm, Bernadette Watts

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Cinderella: (Original Brothers Grimm Version) by Brothers Grimm, Bernadette Watts (Illustrator) Do you know the story of Cinderella? You probably think you do, but you also probably only know one version of this classic tale. Be it the Disney version or the more famous Charles Perrault version, you have only seen a small bit of the history of this folktale. Now, I had heard about the original version the Grimm Brothers had done, but I mostly forgot about it. If the version you know is […]

I posted my images out of order, but the poems are still the same

Did You Kiss A Cat Today???: Poems for Children by Diane Stevenson, Geri Lipschultz and James Berger

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The first couple of poems of Did You Kiss A Cat Today???: Poems for Children by Diane Stevenson, Geri Lipschultz and James Berger were odd. I felt they were more adult and darker than I think would be appropriate for children. Then, more poems came and more of those were for children. But once again, darker and more adult poems came about. There was realism, nonsense, and other stuff. And I say stuff as sometimes I understood the theme of things, sometimes I did not. […]

Read a little poetry

Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship    by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls and Selina Alko

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Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship  by Irene Latham (author), Charles Waters (author), Sean Qualls (illustrator), Selina Alko (illustrator)   I had forgotten I read the poetry collection, Can I Touch Your Hair? years ago, therefore, it felt like reading it for the first time with this recent reading. This is a unique treat as current events and my new experiences change how I relate to things. It is an interesting format, that must have been a fresh idea that […]

Reverso Poems

Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths by Marilyn Singer and Josée Masse

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer and Josée Masse

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From Marilyn Singer: A reverso is a poem with two halves. In a reverso, the second half reverses the lines from the first half, with changes only in punctuation and capitalization — and it has to say something completely different from the first half. And they claim the right to say they invented the form. Okay, I’m a smidgen skeptical as you’re telling me in the thousands of years of poetry she is the first to think of this? But, you know what? Who cares […]



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