Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Familiar faces and story with a twist

Manu by Kelly Fernandez

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Best friends, magic and religion mix for a fantastic fantasy graphic novel called Manu by Kelly Fernandez. The themes, landscape and feeling of the novel itself is based in the author/illustrators Dominican and American heritage. This is a modern fairy/folk tale that combines classic story and new imagery. Manu was a foundling. Manu is always getting into trouble. Manu is a bit “too much” for her classmates. But Manu is loved by the headmistress and her best friend, Josefina. This is a school for magical […]

Two books two reviews part two

I’m on It! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading) by Andrea Tsurumi

Guess What!? (an Unlimited Squirrels Book) by Mo Willems

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What do you do when you have four books and are not sure you can do the 250-word reviews for them? Well, if you read the other two book review I did you know that you write about them in groups of two. This time we will start with the one I liked the least out of these two. However, I’m on It! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading) is not a book I disliked. Perhaps the repetition of the concept was a little grating after […]

Two books two reviews

Lewis Trondheim’s The Fly by Lewis Trondheim

Chick and Brain: Egg or Eyeball? by Cece Bell

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What do you do when you want to write a review of four books, and are not sure you can make that 250 minimum as total they might have 250 words between them? (I’m estimating as one is a silent comic.) You review two at a time! And I will start with The Fly and Chick and Brain. The first is probably my favorite, though I was/am not “jumping up and down” over it. It is a black and white, what was called a “silent […]

Tori on Tori

Just Pretend by Tori Sharp

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Just Pretend by Tori Sharp is a fresh friendship story that is also familiar. Tenderly written, this graphic novel is realistic and relatable. While there is a moral, the main point is just come along for Tori’s journey. We follow Tori after her parents have gotten divorced. With a feeling of being set in the 1990s (or around then), this book is timeless. The issues that divorced parents have, the issues siblings have with each other, and the issues children have with their parents allow […]

When Boy Meets Boy and Sparks fly….maybe

Heartstopper V01 by Alice Oseman

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I have tried multiple times to start the first book in the Heartstopper series. However, I learned that my trick of “starting on a random page to see if it can grab me” did not work. This book is one you must start with page one and work your way through it. And actually, one should read it slowly as, even though there is little text, and frankly little traditional action, you do not want to rush it. There is a lot going on and […]

If Paul Bunyan was a brave Chinese woman having her story told by a sassy, brave young Chinese girl

The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

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This book, The Legend of Auntie Po, had an interesting journey to my hand. I was interested in reading, but never got around to it. One day it was on the returns cart next to my desk (Ah! MY desk! I promise you that year with the other desk meant nothing to me). I picked it up, browsed it, and decided, yes, I will read it. A coworker saw I had it and said how much she loved the book. After I finished, we talked […]



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