Cannonball Read 18

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Fluffy Bunnies

The Wild Season: The Remarkable True Story of a Rabbit Rescue by Dashka Slater

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One reason I do not always like non-fiction books is that they can read like the longest, dullest speech given. A speech in any language but the one you listen/read/know in. And The Wild Season: The Remarkable True Story of a Rabbit Rescue by Dashka Slater is not one of those. It is a fun story. It is based on a true event but is read as fiction. Of course, the author does not superimpose their own thoughts (the boy thought, “Gee that bunny is […]

Who taught you to ride?

Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike by Dashka Slater

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I was taught to ride my two-wheeler by my mom, who could not ride a bike herself. But then again, that was par for the course as I learned to ride my trike by watching my teenaged uncle (all six feet plus of him) riding my trike with his legs over the handlebars, and knees to his ears (I have pictures of this, as well as me wearing his motorcycle helmet on that same trike, considering the future issues, I should have had it later) […]

Ships Ahoy!

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The Antlered Ship is a bizarre little book. I have to say, while I do not hate it, I have done multiple reads on it and still am not truly sure what I think about it. The most interesting part of the book is the fantasticalness of it, but it hints at the realism of animals. A fox sets off on a seafaring voyage with the crew being deer and pigeons. One meat eater on the ship does make cause for worry by this reader. […]



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