Cats – Page 2 – Cannonball Read 15

It’s hairy, it’s scary, it has toe beans!

The Scariest Kitten in the World by Kate Messner

July 6, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Scariest Kitten in the World is a hilarious picture book by Terrifying Kitten (and help from Kate Messner) and illustrated by MacKenzie Haley in the vein of Sesame Street’s The Monster at the End of This Book. The theme is we have a not-so-scary kitten and a not-too-terrifying haunted house that is explored by a few (unseen) kids/possible narrator. The narrator takes us slowly down a spooky corridor, to a spooky sound where we find the spooky… okay adorable little monster stands … okay […]

wtf was this book?? anyone else?

The Curator by Owen King

June 21, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book has one of the lowest average ratings on Goodreads I’ve ever seen*; it’s currently sitting at a 3.01, where anything under 3.5 is considered low, and anything under 3.25 is pretty dire. You see a rating like that and your first instinct is, “Whoa, what’s going on here??” And honestly, I understand it. I read this book back in March (it is now late June) and I’m still not sure if I even liked it. It is an extremely weird reading experience with […]

I read a lot of picture books so I have a lot of reviews. This is one of them.

All About Cats Fantastically Funny Rhymes by Frantz Wittkamp

May 22, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If you like offbeat rhyming books, All About Cats Fantastically Funny Rhymes might be for you. The crew of Frantz Wittkamp, Axel Scheffler and David Henry Wilson made this due in mid-March 2024 picture book. I am not sure how the final result will be as I found it as an online reader copy, but it is supposed to be paper and not a traditional first published as hardcover edition. I am not sure how much I liked all the approximately fifteen poems about cats […]

A book from its time

The Cat at Night by Dahlov Ipcar

May 22, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I would like to think since I have read so much, and that I lived with my grandmother and her “retro, but it was the present at the time it first was in style but not so much in my childhood” style, that I can “pinpoint” an era when looking at a picture book. And I was not too far off from the era of The Cat at Night. First written in 1969 the illustrations were screaming “1930s to 1940’s” farm-chic (only the original deal) […]

Here Kitty Kitty Tiger

Lost Cat! by Jacqueline K. Rayner

Mister Kitty is Lost! by Greg Pizzoli

Sometimes, a Tiger by Z. B. Asterplume

March 6, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you like cats? As the saying goes, you should never trust someone who does not like cats. Or is that dogs? No, I’m sure it is cats…. Regardless which (or both) it is, if you like cats, and if you like reading, and if you like picture books these three below titles are books you should investigate reading. Each one is a bit different, but they could work for most people and most ages. First, we have Lost Cat! Jacqueline K. Rayner made a […]

Are you my reader?

Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

March 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]

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