Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Getting flowers

Beneath the Trees: First Spring by Dav

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The kid (or warthog) is a typical kid/hog in Beneath the Trees: First Spring by Dav. Not too bright, but curious (and that is not a negative comment, just an observation as babies do not have the intellect to understand things and have informed knowledge of the world around them). We quickly learn that the baby is allergic to flowers it seems, and they become scared every time they sneeze because of it. To the point that they throw one heck of a hissy fit […]

It can be okay

Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung

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Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung is actually a 4.5 as the ending felt a bit pushed (as if she needed 200 pages so she repeated herself a few times some of  the concepts and ideas, but was just using different wording). Otherwise, Everything Is Okay is a very loving letter about herself to herself and how she shares that with us.   We follow the narrator as we travel with them learning about their anxiety and depression. We find the relatable ideas of trying to be […]

Friends say Meow

Angel in Beijing by Belle Yang

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Belle Yang’s Angel in Beijing is really a simple story, but it is busy and filled with goodies. A young fil finds a cat one night, and after a while, they just name the cat Kitty (as no other name seem to fit). But one day, Kitty runs off. And not even the child’s bell on her bike, that Kitty loves to meow along with, seems to bring her home. But then again, home can have many meanings. And sometimes a surprise like finding a […]

Here comes the (fun) train wreck

Loonicorns V01 Bleary-Eye by Cedric Asna

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I probably should have realized that Loonicorns V01 Bleary-Eye was going to be a train wreck when I saw a cyclops, grumpy unicorn (I guessed it was a unicorn, the horn was a clue) and a girl with a horn. Yet, like wrecks in general, you just cannot look away. Or in this case, stop reading. After all, what was going on? At first, I was, “Nope. Jerky characters in a segregated system? Not my jam.” Still, there was something in Cedric Asna’s words that […]

Big Cousins, Big Shoes, and Little ol’ You

King Kong’s Cousin by Mark Teague

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The joke goes, how you would you like to be the brother of Jesus? (Why can’t you be more like your brother Jesus? He walks on water! He heals the sick!) And the same would be true for being the cousin of King Kong. I mean, Kong is big. He is strong. He was in a movie. And Junior? He takes bubble baths, is not very tall, eats his breakfast and known as King Kong’s Cousin. In classic Mark Teague text and illustrations (though I […]

Grandparents do the oddest things

Granddad’s Pink Trousers by Lucie Hasova Truhelkova

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Granddad’s Pink Trousers is not for everyone. Lucie Hasova Truhelkova made a story that, when you learn the “punch line” you feel bad about judging the grandfather during the rest of the book, but at the same time, I felt the grandfather was judging and the rest of us were really douches for not being like him. I mean, the story is about the man who is strange by most people’s standards. He is upset when his wife tosses out a yogurt that is a […]



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