Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Two books two reviews

Lewis Trondheim’s The Fly by Lewis Trondheim

Chick and Brain: Egg or Eyeball? by Cece Bell

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What do you do when you want to write a review of four books, and are not sure you can make that 250 minimum as total they might have 250 words between them? (I’m estimating as one is a silent comic.) You review two at a time! And I will start with The Fly and Chick and Brain. The first is probably my favorite, though I was/am not “jumping up and down” over it. It is a black and white, what was called a “silent […]

One squirrel is a little nuts

The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming

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I have a love-hate relationship with squirrels: as I love to hate them and hate to love them. But no matter how much I say I do not like squirrels, I like squirrels. I even like Squirrel in The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming. Even though Squirrel is a nut or two short of some logic now and again. Squirrel loves counting leaves on his tree. The red ones, gold ones, orange ones, and the yellow ones. But when he realizes that one is missing, […]

I wrote this a few hours before I heard of the current events

V Is for Voting by Kate Farrrell

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NOTE: I wrote the below review before I heard about the riots. I want to present this review as it was before I had my feelings of the recent events. Before I knew that my cousin’s son was working (though in Virginia) someplace near Washington DC. Before I knew my cousin was hearing gunshots and racial slurs outside her apartment. Before she started playing phone tag to make sure her friends were safe. Before I became sick to my stomach at the horrors we keep […]

I know it is 298 days until Halloween but this is a year-round Treat!

The Ghosts Went Floating by Kim Norman

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I am going to say it. I am not ashamed. I almost peed myself laughing at The Ghosts Went Floating. I thought my coworkers would come into the office and think that I had officially finally lost it for good this time. But I did not care! I would just have told them that Kim Norman is a genius! Norman took “The Ants go Marching” song and gave it the most awesome of awesome twists: put that tune to a Halloween theme. I have seen […]

The other Goliath

Goliath: The Boy Who Was Different by Ximo Abadía

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Red cbr12bingo I said!  Goliath: The Boy Who Was Different by Ximo Abadía seems like it might be a somber and sad story, but turns out it is really a feel good story about just being you. Other than being very large, not looking like everyone else, Goliath seems like a normal boy. While Abadia does not dig deep into the differences, they show how being different affects Goliath, who is telling their own story. We have seen this story before, but it is fresh […]

Let’s Hug!

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

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And this is cbr12bingo book for Yellow! Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni was his first book for children. Due to the fact he had rambunctious grandchildren, one day on the train he had to find a creative way to keep them occupied and this book was born. How do I know this? It is in Lionni’s own words at the back of this edition.  And who would have thought a book from 1959 would still be in print let alone as beloved now […]



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