Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The perfect order for 26 letters

Al Pha’s Bet by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Al Pha’s Bet is a clever and unique way to teach the alphabet, with a heavy helping of humor. The main character is a gent named Al Pha. When the King wants to organize the newly invented letters into an organized format, Al makes a bet with himself that he can find a way. Amy Krouse Rosenthal and their characteristic humor splashes onto each page pushing you along to learn one possible reason how those 26 letters got into that wild and crazy order. And […]

Superheroes are human, too

Dear Justice League by Michael Northrop

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Dear Justice League, How did you know that ages 7 to 10 (and the big kid in all of us) would want to read this book (called Dear Justice League by author Michael Northrop) over and over? This format of your Justice League character (Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern and Superman) fans emailing you a letter (and actual pen and paper writing to Batman) asking about things as deep as “Do you ever make mistakes?” to “Does Aquaman smell like fish?” is […]

A loving bond grows between the two unlikely friends

The Scarecrow. by Beth Ferray

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Erin and Terry Fan are at it again with their lovely illustrations in The Scarecrow. These works of art are the right colors, tone and filled with details that fit the theme and feel of the story. And while the story is a tad too sugary (in parts) for me, the illustrations help calm that effect.     With that said, Beth Ferry created a lovely book about love, friendship and possibly you could even say that it is a little bit about adoption as […]

One book, 10 friends and a heck of a good time

How to Two by David Soman

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First look at How to Two makes it look like a book about kids playing. And it. However, David Soman twists it up a bit with the how the kids start to play.  Over all this is a terribly clever book. It has rich, deep, solid illustrations. The story works well for a classroom or one-on-one reading. It is educational and fun. What it is not, however, is one of my OMG LOOOOVE this book! The idea of counting from one to ten by each […]

Hello My name is Raven and I am a book sniffer

This Book of Mine: A Picture Book by Sarah Stewart

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This Book of Mine: A Picture Book by wife and husband team Sarah Stewart (one heck of a writer) and David Small (one heck of an illustrator) is a poetic look at the things we do with books: read, enjoy, chew, learn, even smell them. WHAT? You have never smelled a book? And you call yourself a bibliophile! All kidding aside, I was not expecting a lot of out this short book. Mostly because my inner kid kicked in when I saw the title and I thought “This […]

Q: What did the quater say to the penny?

Spend It! (Moneybunny) by Cinders McLeod

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Spend It! is one in a series of books for kids learning about money.  Along with Earn It! and Save It! (and possibly a future title Give It!) the reader finds out that money is not as straight forward as one might think. Cinders McLeod, in this book, talks about understanding your choices when it comes to money. Our bunny hero, Sonny, has three carrots, therefore, that means he can buy three things, right? Wrong! As he quickly learns. (Though you got to love that […]



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