Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The most poetic tribute to trees since Joyce Kilmer

Tree, A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady, with illustrations by Robert Bateman

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“A lightning bolt illuminates the sky, striking the highest point of the forested ridge.” Thus begins the biography of a single tree. Tree, A Life Story is a 700-year-long tale that begins with a Douglas fir dropping a seed from its cone in response to a forest fire and ends with the fallen tree continuing to supply the forest with nutrients even after death. In between, the authors trace the growth journey of the fir as it takes root, matures, and reproduces. But what could […]

If you want to keep on swimmin’ you’ll need to take care of the planet first

To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat

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To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat is a lovely story about how one small event, person, or thing, can have a global impact. And if each one of us bans together, we can try and help the issues we have created. Of course, there is little new to this concept presented in the pages of Soontorvat’s story. Yet, it is a nice book. It would be good for a classroom setting, or a quiet time read. The colorfully bold illustrations by Rahele Jomepour Bell […]

Need to feel good? Grab a book or four

Chirp!: Chipmunk Sings for a Friend by Jamie A. Swenson

Sunny-Side Up by Jacky Davis

We Are Better Together by Bill McKibben

Let’s Do Everything and Nothing by Julia Kuo

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Do you need some feel good stories? These books are positive, hopeful, and have a modern take on subjects. Each one ranges in the best age for it, but most ages five and up will be fine. Chirp!: Chipmunk Sings for a Friend by Jamie A. Swenson  This book is a simple story: a little chipmunk is alone and keeps singing for a friend. Scott Magoon illustrates the clever gem of finding the perfect note of friendship. The colors are simple, light without being muted. […]

love the world and make it better

this one wild and precious life by Sarah Wilson

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I’ve long been a fan of Sarah Wilson’s work, first discovering her through I Quit Sugar and then her zero-waste cookbook Simplicious Flow. Her ethos of buying food in season, in as little packaging as possible, using every bit of it, and making the best use of scraps and leftovers really resonated as something we could all strive towards as a way of living a little more lightly on our one precious planet. this one wild and precious life extends on the planet saving theme, […]

Environmental Science for the younger crowd

Oil by Jonah Winter

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I dislike books that you cannot really rate because they are books that are emotionally linked to your own feelings, thoughts and biases. These books are personal to you and all I can say is how I feel about it. Oil by Jonah Winter is a personal book. If you are an environmentalist, you will be all over this book. You will appreciate the theme of showing the dangers of oil consumption and the impact it has on wildlife. There is no question the author […]

Baaaaby Otter swimmin’ around, looking so cute, should have a crown….

If You Take Away the Otter by Susannah Buhrman-Deever

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Every time I see this title, If You Take Away the Otter I wonder, “Why would you take away the otter? They are cute and fluffy and smart and funny and cute…”  Only once upon a time, some people did take away the otters (by various ways, and mostly (if not all) were environmentally unfriendly ones). Therefore, Susannah Buhrman-Deever created a fun story filled with facts (with extra information on the sides and at the end) to allow your child to grow with the book. […]



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