Cannonball Read 18

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The wall of Walstead

Pup and Dragon: How to Catch an Elf by Alice Walstead

How to Catch Santa Claus by Alice Walstead

How to Catch a Garden Fairy: A Mythical Adventure Through Nature by Alice Walstead

How to Catch a Daddysaurus by Alice Walstead

My First How to Catch the Big Bad Wolf by Alice Walstead

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I am going through my online reader copy list and found a holiday book, Pup and Dragon: How to Catch an Elf. This is part of a “How to Catch” graphic novel series, and by the author of the picture book How to Catch series, Alice Walstead. These books have various subjects, but I will start with the Pup and Dragon stories. Or story more accurately. I am not sure where in the series How to Catch and Elf falls for our BFFs, Pup and Dragon, but it is not […]

One two three I gotta read

Don’t Touch that Flower! by Alice Hemming

Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library by Andy Elkerton

Gotta Go! by Frank Viva

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There are rules such as, Don’t Touch that Flower! and Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library. And there should be one, no matter how fun your game is, if you do not listen to your mom you will Gotta Go! later. Or in other words, those are the three picture books I read recently. Starting with Don’t Touch that Flower! I will start with I was not exactly in the mood for the slightly annoying “don’t get it” child personality of Squirrel. Still, this […]

Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the aliens bite

Good Night Solar System by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper

Good Night Astronaut by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper

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Adam Gamble, and Mark Jasper have created two more board books in the “Good Night” series. This time they deal with a popular subject for many children: space. With the help of Andy Elkerton on illustrations, Good Night Solar System gives planets a turn at helping a space-crazy child to sleep. The same repetitive text slowly builds up to one big goodnight for the solar system, lulling the child (hopefully to sleep). If not, you can try again with Good Night Astronauts and with illustrations […]



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