Cannonball Read 18

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Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace and Nancy Carpenter

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Ursula Marvin didn’t have rocks in the head, but she had rocks on the brain! And meteorites and all sorts of neat science things. She was a girl who was told “learn to cook.” And instead, she decided to cook up some good trouble by finding moon rocks, meteorites and more in the harsh Antarctic landscape. This picture book biography, Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace and illustrator Nancy Carpenter is a fun introduction to a woman […]

Wombat in a strange land

Digger, Volume One by Ursula Vernon

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If Lord of the Rings, Redwall and Haru by Joe Latham had a book baby (though I’m assuming Haru could have been influenced by this story) Digger, Volume One by Ursula Vernon would be the result. It is funny, dense, dark, mysterious, slow in parts, yet it keeps you hooked wondering what is next. It is not for young or sensitive readers, as the images are mostly “tame,” the text and descriptions are not always so. The black and white art is both positive and […]

Rabbits Rabbits and more Rabbits

Bunny in the Middle by Linda Olafsdottir

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Bunny in the Middle by Linda Olafsdottir is my cbr18bingo Bingo Middle square. First, there is Middle in the title. Second, the bunny in question is introduced when they show up in the middle of the floor/room. Third, we find ourselves in the middle of an adventure; well multiple ones as our main character finds herself exploring different books.Finally, it is due in the middle of February 2027  Therefore, take your pick which Bingo Middle works for you. And now that you are almost in […]

These sheep are fantastic and don’t make me itch from their fabulous wool

The Rainbow Sheep by David Hayward

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There are no real surprises on the pages of The Rainbow Sheep by David Hayward (recently published in May 2026, read via an online reader copy). But that does not matter. It is just a nice book with fun illustrations that tells you “Be the Rainbow Sheep.” Or the purple sheep, or the blue and pink sheep, or the black sheep, or the white sheep. If you have been online the last few years, you have probably seen Jesus holding one of the rainbow sheep. […]

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Just One Gift: A Thoughtful Classroom Story told through Poetry for Kids (Ages 8-12) by Linda Sue Park and Robert Sae-Heng

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Just One Gift: A Thoughtful Classroom Story told through Poetry for Kids (Ages 8-12) by Linda Sue Park and Robert Sae-Heng has a unique format to teach the children of the story, and the reader, acts of kindness and selflessness. Inspired by a form of Korean poetry, Park takes a middle school classroom and its students and gives them a task (well, their teacher does). They must pick a slip of paper from a hat. It will have Family, Friend, or ? (question mark) on […]

“Simon tries to remember where he’s supposed to put his hands, what a normal facial expression feels like, how to cosplay as a functional person.”

Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian

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It has been literal years since I have read a Cat Sebastian romance novel, and that’s a damn shame for me, because I love her writing. I’ve had books of hers out from the library, but the timing just hasn’t been right, I suppose. But her debut into contemporary romance, Star Shipped, (you, like me, will be forgiven if the cover art made you think this was mid 20th century like the Cabots series) was available as an ARC and an Aardvark book and I scooped it up as fast as possible – and then […]



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