Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The perfect order for 26 letters

Al Pha’s Bet by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Al Pha’s Bet is a clever and unique way to teach the alphabet, with a heavy helping of humor. The main character is a gent named Al Pha. When the King wants to organize the newly invented letters into an organized format, Al makes a bet with himself that he can find a way. Amy Krouse Rosenthal and their characteristic humor splashes onto each page pushing you along to learn one possible reason how those 26 letters got into that wild and crazy order. And […]

Oh boy! Oh boy!

Dear Boy by Paris Rosenthal

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I do not remember reading mother and daughter Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal’s collaboration Dear Girl. But if I had, it obviously did not make much of an impression. Therefore, I was unsure what to exactly expect from daughter and father collaborators, Paris and Jason Rosenthal’s Dear Boy. Though, I had my suspicions. And basically, what came out of my reading of Dear Boy was exactly what I was expecting: a sentimental, modern, touchy-feely and obvious book. It is a “make yourself a kinder, […]

The simplest of illustrations, and a book’s worth of confusion is born.

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In Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld’s Duck! Rabbit!, we start off with an unusual conundrum: Nobody is really sure what the main character actually is. We’re pretty sure it’s an animal. Of some sort. We’ve got it narrowed down to two, but that’s as close as we can guess. S/he could be a duck – see there? The bill, and the bread eating? or S/he could be a rabbit – only witness the carrot snack and the long, pointed ears. There’s really no telling, […]



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