Cannonball Read 18

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A new reading goal

Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night by Julia Kuo

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My new goal is to find as many books I can find that are written and illustrated by Julia Kuo. I have read only a few, but know that I won’t be disappointed when I find others. The one that I recently found and has sealed the deal for knowing I will enjoy their books, was Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night by them. And all I can really say is that this is just amazingly and beautifully done. Overall, it starts out […]

Save The …. well everything!

Save Our Forest! (Cross My Heart, #2) by Nora Dåsnes and Lise Laerdal Bryn

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If you have read Cross My Heart and Never Lie (volume 1 of the Cross My Heart series) than you know a little about  the characters that will show up in Save Our Forest! (Cross My Heart, #2) by Nora Dåsnes and translator Lise Laerdal Bryn. Now if you do not know book one, that is fine as this time around we focus on a second character and person from the first is present but not the focus. There are one or two pieces of […]

Bzzing read

Little Bee and the Bloom by Carly Kremer and Katie Hunt

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Little Bee and the Bloom by Carly Kremer and Katie Hunt is a fun, sweet rhyming way to learn about bees and flowers. It has cute illustrations that make it a bouncy, bright, colorful and energetic read. No, I was not blown away, but I enjoyed it. The thing I liked is that it is a good way to introduce the concept to the older toddler and preschooler aged child. And you could even read it to a kindergartner or they could read it with […]

Mountains! Around the world!

Mountainous by Julia Kuo

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Looking at the cover of Mountainous by Julia Kuo made me think that the book was going to be a book that “feels good” and has a mindfulness quality to it. And it does, but it is not just that. This unique work features a clever, sweet, and interesting story that blends meditation, self-esteem, and imagery to create a truly special experience. It shows (from the publisher’s description) that When the world moves so fast, mountains seem to stand still. But mountains move and change […]

Beary cute story

A Bear Belongs: A Wildlife Rescue Story by Catherine Barr and Harriet Hobday

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It’s a little embarrassing to say that it took me from February 2026 to April 2026 to read A Bear Belongs: A Wildlife Rescue Story by Catherine Barr. Not because it is some 5,000 page book or anything. But because I forgot the name of it. It was not until a few days before writing the review I remembered Bear was in the title. So, I did a search in my emails for reader copies and found probably 20 different titles that had bear attached […]

This in’t about adoption

Mother Nature by Jamie Lee Curtis, Russell Goldman and Karl Stevens

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SOME SPOILERS and possible triggers (but not as many as are in the book). Sometimes I wonder if people like something because they are “supposed to.” We are “supposed to” like a story about environmentalism. We are “supposed to” like something because the character(s) are of a minority (in Mother Nature by Jamie Lee Curtis, Russell Goldman, and illustrator Karl Stevens they are Native, two characters are queer, and at least two other people are of color). But that does not mean the book will […]



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