Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Keep the Lights and all sorts of things going

The Light Keepers by Amy June Bates

Stories by Sea: A Lighthouse Library's Journey by Jessica Iwanski and Angela C. Hawkins

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I remember a book called Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Connie Roop “back in the day”. It was never my favorite book, but I remember it fondly. It was a book about a subject that was the first time I had heard of it. It was about women and lighthouses together and not as the wife of the keeper. Over the years a few more books about lighthouses, lighthouse keeps and female lighthouse keepers came along and found their way to books I had […]

Natural curiosity made her the first

Foote Was First!: How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change by Jen Bryant and Amy June Bates

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While a bit more academic than many picture book biographies, Foote Was First!: How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change by Jen Bryant and Amy June Bates (illustrator), is well written and illustrated, presenting highlighted events in the life of Eunice Foote.  That is a simplified (and not exactly grammatically correct) description of the book. I can’t really say a lot about the book other than it is oddly simpler with the illustrations and yet there is a complexity to them. The […]

People Who Made a Difference” Or “People Who Tried”

Joey: The Story of Joe Biden by Jill Biden and Kathleen Krull

Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Because America's Doctor by Kate Messner

King Of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen Costanza

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I do not care what you think about Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, or Scott Joplin (he fits my theme, if not a smidgen loosely, which is “People Who Made a Difference” Or “People Who Tried”), but these books are really cool. Okay, not “cool” as in The Fonz was cool or a snowman is cool, but in the way that a good book can be cool. Each of the below titles (though all are available, I read via online reader copies) talks about how […]

Her name was Jacqueline Gauthier Judith Geller, and more

Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust. by Elisa Boxer

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CBR15Passport  other format (memoir as fiction)   Her name was Jacqueline Gauthier (among others) she had many secrets (one had to do with a toy duck), and she would help save people’s lives. Gauthier was really Judith Geller, a Jewish teen who pretended to be a Christian social worker. She would deliver papers to other Jewish families to help them be safer in France, or even help them escape the country all together. She was part of the French Resistance, she would lose dozens of […]

The Big Umbrella of Love

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The big umbrella is a slightly hard book to get behind in some ways. The fact that the umbrella magically grows to fit everyone it needs to under it, can be a bit hard for the brain that takes things literally. I know this is a symbol of love. The umbrella is love and there is room for everyone. But my first reading had me saying, “What! Hold on there! I’ve never had an umbrella big enough for me, let alone all those people, that […]



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