Cannonball Read 18

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Here Kitty Kitty Tiger

Lost Cat! by Jacqueline K. Rayner

Mister Kitty is Lost! by Greg Pizzoli

Sometimes, a Tiger by Z. B. Asterplume

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Do you like cats? As the saying goes, you should never trust someone who does not like cats. Or is that dogs? No, I’m sure it is cats…. Regardless which (or both) it is, if you like cats, and if you like reading, and if you like picture books these three below titles are books you should investigate reading. Each one is a bit different, but they could work for most people and most ages. First, we have Lost Cat! Jacqueline K. Rayner made a […]

Are you my reader?

Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief  by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

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Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]

That’s Mr. Mark if you’re nasty

I Am a Rainbow by Mark Kanemura

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Mark Kanemura is a voice in the GLBTQ+ community. However, their story, I Am a Rainbow, while personal to them, has been told before. This does not mean it should not be told again, it just means if you are looking for a new approach to the subject of being yourself and being a queer child, this is not completely that. We follow Mark from home, to school, back home, then with some special friends. Along the way Mark realizes that confidence is not that […]

One two three I gotta read

Don’t Touch that Flower! by Alice Hemming

Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library by Andy Elkerton

Gotta Go! by Frank Viva

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There are rules such as, Don’t Touch that Flower! and Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library. And there should be one, no matter how fun your game is, if you do not listen to your mom you will Gotta Go! later. Or in other words, those are the three picture books I read recently. Starting with Don’t Touch that Flower! I will start with I was not exactly in the mood for the slightly annoying “don’t get it” child personality of Squirrel. Still, this […]

She might be a mall goth, but she ain’t no poser

Mall Goth by Kate Leth

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The day was a late night in February 2023. I picked up my phone and said, “Hey! I have fast internet, try and read something.” And I read Mall Goth by Kate Leth with Diana Sousa as colorist and Robin Crank on lettering. (Now honestly, I am not sure the importance of the lettering person, but I do know it is important, so welcome!) I was going along just fine, until there a bump here and there would hit. A large one was a technical […]

A candid capybara

I Am a Capybara by Michaela Fabbri

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I read a book the other day (I know, what a shock). It was an odd shape, lots of white, and then some gray and browns for the cover. And it would go on to tell me that, “A capybara is not a mouse, or a beaver, or a bear, and has all sorts of surprising traits you will soon discover.” You see that book was I Am a Capybara by Michaela Fabbri. It is a picture book that is told from the point of […]



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