Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I read a little bit

Pockets for Two: A Collection of Girlhood by Lindsay Ward

Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld

Hedgehog and the Art Show by Ozge Bahar Sunar

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Okay, this might be a surprise, but I read a little bit. In fact this should be such a shock to you that if you did not fall down laughing, you are not paying attention. Seriously, I like books. I like sharing books and I will share three with you. Disclaimer: even if the book is out, I read all as online reader copies.  Pockets for Two: A Collection of Girlhood is a sweet story about the magic of pockets, treasures and special friendships. Lindsay […]

Feelings are hard; the least we can do is give kids the words to describe them.

Star Wars Search Your Feelings, Galactic Basic Edition by Calliope Class & Caitlin Kennedy

What to Do When You're Feeling Blue by Andi Cann

The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

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When I taught preschool, we did a lot of lessons on emotions.  I’m not sure there was anything we did over the course of the whole school year that didn’t somehow connect to emotions, since teaching kids how to deal with their own feelings and participate in a community where everybody else also had feelings was our overreaching goal, in the end.  We may have told parents we were teaching their kids the colors of the rainbow, but you best believe there were some lessons […]

Just Listening

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The Rabbit Listened has a lot of the things I dislike in a book: sparse text and illustrations. However, this time, they fit the theme perfectly. The theme is a young child, Taylor, does not know how to proceed with dealing with their feelings when something bad happens. But all his animal friends know how to handle it. Yet, nothing really fits until the rabbit has the perfect solution. Rabbit listens. The sparseness of the text and art is just that: listening. You do not […]



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