Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Mio, My Son, an A+ read-aloud

Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren

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This is the 7th book in our read-aloud journey of 2025. (Previously featuring: The Hobbit, Travel Light, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Jenny and the Cat Club, The Dragon of Og, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.) Astrid Lindgren is most famous for Pippi Longstocking, but I was enchanted with the cover of this little book so I decided to read this one first.  Andy is an orphan who lives with his aunt and uncle in Stockholm. He is lonely and unloved, save for his neighbor […]

My favourite book growing up

Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia the Robber's Daughter) by Astrid Lindgren

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CBR16 Sweet Books: Cozy (this was my absolutely most favourite book as a child) Nowhere Books Bingo: Has been adapted into a movie or a TV show CBR16 Bingo: Horses (the back cover has a picture of the horses that Ronja and Birk tame during their stay in the forest) Ronja is the only daughter of the chief of a robber band. She’s born during a particularly stormy night when a lightning strike creates a giant gorge in the stone fortress where she grows up. […]

Dr. Seuss et al

Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog by Mo Willems

The Duckling Gets a Cookie? by Mo Willems

This is not my Hat by Jon Klassen

The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka

Boys Will Be Boys by James Patterson

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

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I recently asked my high school seniors what were some of their favorite book when they were younger. These are 18 year olds now, so mostly born in 2005, and while there were some older classics in the mix like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, most of the answers were books I had never heard of before. So I went to the library and checked some of them out to see what they had enjoyed. While there, I checked out a few other […]



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