Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Let’s go to sleep

The Dreamway by Lisa Papademetriou

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I do not remember how I found out about The Dreamway by Lisa Papademetriou but find it I did, and an interlibrary loan is how it came to be in my possession. I would have loved this as a 10-to 13-year-old. The story is cute, but not overly cutesy. There is enough fantasy to grab the fantasy reader, but enough reality to grab them, too. The sibling story is interesting. The narrator’s disability does not come into play a lot (and in fact could be […]

Two days that changed it all.

The Way I Say I by Nancy Tandon

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The Way I Say It is an old school feeling story with a modern take. The entire time I was reading I was thinking, “This is so 1980s!” I felt that while the issues being discussed in this book by Nancy Tandon, they were terribly tame by today’s standards. It almost felt like I had read this book back when I was between the ages of 8 and 12. Yet, dealing with a speech issue, brain injury and friendship woes is timeless at the same […]

Called a luminous escapade, I call it one very interesting book

In the Meadow of Fantasies by Hadi Mohammadi

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In the Meadow of Fantasies looks like it might be a funny book at first glance. It seems like it will have a humorous element due to the cover horse with a boat on its rump. However, while there are times when humor comes into play, this book is far from humorous. The seriousness of imagination is the focus of the book. A young girl (you will realize is in a wheelchair by looking at the artistic illustrations of Nooshin Safakhoo) uses her horse mobile […]

A nice story and a message all in one

Freddie and the Fairy by Julia Donaldson

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Two things I do when I am at work: doodle on the purchase order I am calling in when left on hold too long and look at customer special orders when I am processing them. I was looking at a special order the other day when I saw a small picture book called Freddie and the Fairy.  I did not recognize the name Karen George but seem to know their illustrations. I did know that Julia Donaldson has several books that can be all over […]



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