Cannonball Read 18

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Groundbreaking

We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers Who Changed the World by Eva Chen

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I have wanted to read We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers Who Changed the World  by Eva Chen and illustrated by Sophie Diao for ages. And when I found the books “ID number” (or what is known as the ISBN number), I plugged it into the site where I find my online reader copies, and even though it has been out since January 2024, there was still a link. The description of the size of the book has it as a board book. And since I […]

Break a leg

Roxy the Unisaurus Rex Presents: Oh NO! The Talent Show by Eva Chen

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In the mix of my 130 emails (I know, so few for most, but for me, that is an unbelievable amount!) I have an email from a rep of the bookstore. They send out a list of new books coming from a website we use to order and/or look at titles on. And occasionally there is a snippet or two/a page or three, that gives you a hint of what is to happen. However, they also sometimes have links to download or in the case […]

Counting 20 women of Awesomeness

321 Awesome! 20 Fearless Women Who Dared to be Different by Eva Chen

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I was pleasantly surprised with this 321 Awesome! 20 Fearless Women Who Dared to be Different by Eva Chen. Books that list influential women can be a bit preachy or only have the same women always used. Yet, not only does it have “popular” people one would know, it has people you do not normally see in a book about women as influencers. However, there are a few people that not everyone will agree should be included (JK Rowling, Temple Grandin, Rhianna).  This variety is what […]

Two Alphabet books to try out

A is for Awesome!: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World by Eva Chen

An ABC of Flowers by Jutta Hilpuesch

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A is for Awesome!: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World would have been almost a perfect alphabet/history book and been a five rating if the age-old dilemma of X Y Z had not come up. Instead of people being here (Y could have been Yoko Ono, though I admit I am having a little trouble finding X and Z, but considering Beyoncé is represented, Eva Chen could have had Xuxa or Zoë Kravitz), instead words that have the letters and mentions how “wonderful” you the […]



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