Cannonball Read 18

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Cheek it out

Uranus Is Full of Gas: Farty Facts about the Cheekiest Planet in the Solar System by Chris Ferrie and Michael Slack

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Uranus Is Full of Gas: Farty Facts about the Cheekiest Planet in the Solar System by Chris Ferrie and illustrated by Michael Slack.  Due February 2027; read via an online reader copy. If you are not familiar with me, let me introduce myself: I am an adult reader who is mentally a 10-year-old boy when it comes to gas, farts and body humor. And when you get a book called: Uranus Is Full of Gas, you know I am not going to look any farter… […]

Learn how to go

Space: The Final Pooping Frontier by Annabeth Bondor-Stone,

A Stinky History of Toilets: Flush with Fun Facts and Disgusting Discoveries (Wacky Histories) by Oliva Meikle

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Have you ever needed a bathroom? Usually you’re close enough to one so there are no issues. Yet, what happens when there are no bathrooms? You just might have a messy situation, that’s what. Now, we all take it for granted. It is just what it is. Though, if you are like me, you might have a story or two (I have done or seen: tinkling on a snake, slipped on some wet leaves, used a (thankfully) one-seater in the middle of winter, and would […]

I tried to make a plane joke, but it didn’t land

Flying Machines: Howe the Wright Brothers Soared. by Alison Wilgus

Science Comics: Rockets: Defying Gravity. by Anne Drozd and Jerzy Drozd

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Learn about how we fly without wings through the voice of the Wright brother’s sister in Flying Machines: Howe the Wright Brothers Soared. The history of flight is introduced with, first a story presentation of the facts, and second with pages of the technical presentation. The use of color and details to separate these two sections helps alert you to the change. Part history and part science story, we meet not only the Wright brothers in this graphic novel by Alison Wilgus, but we also […]



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