Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Read a little poetry

Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship    by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls and Selina Alko

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Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship  by Irene Latham (author), Charles Waters (author), Sean Qualls (illustrator), Selina Alko (illustrator)   I had forgotten I read the poetry collection, Can I Touch Your Hair? years ago, therefore, it felt like reading it for the first time with this recent reading. This is a unique treat as current events and my new experiences change how I relate to things. It is an interesting format, that must have been a fresh idea that […]

“Good Morning with roses and jasmine,”

A Good Morning for Giddo by Dahlia Constantine and Irene Latham

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Picture books are a great way to read a book without reading a few hundred pages. They still can entertain, give factual information and make you laugh. Of course, you can cry and be mad, too, as everything is there, as well. I have said this before and will say it again: Picture books are legitimate books. And A Good Morning for Giddo is a very legitimate book. It does not have a big action scene and the message is a little slow in the […]

Get the scooper, ’cause I got the scoop on a robo-dog and its girl

D-39: A Robodog’s Journey by Irene Latham

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I am not really a dog person, but something about the idea of D-39: A Robodog’s Journey was grabbing. Maybe the androgenous look of the character on the cover or the fact it was a robot dog and as far as I could remember I had never read a book with a robot dog. Maybe because it was free. But what kept me reading this novel by Irene Latham was two main things: first it was done in a poetic prose manner. But it was […]

It is: “These are cool books, but I do not have the 250-word minimum for each of them” time.

Wild Peace by Irene Latham

Why? A Conversation About Race by Taye Diggs

Who Loves Little Lemur? by Jay Fleck

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It is: “These are cool books, but I do not have the 250-word minimum for each of them” time. We start with Wild Peace which was penned by Irene Latham and illustrations that came from Il Sung Na.  This is a lovely poem about taking a break and about imagination set in the picture book format. The start and end have a few unusual illustrations that I never completely “got” but overall, my favorite part of the book are the illustrations. This is a relaxing […]

Miss Fancy meets Frank

Meet Miss Fancy by Irene Latham

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#cbr11bingo #Youth Over all, Meet Miss Fancy is an amazing fictional story about the real elephant, Miss Fancy. Irene Latham brings to life the story of an elephant and a young boy with the wish of one day being near a real elephant. The illustrations of John Holyfield not only bring to life the history of the time in fun, sweet, colorful, and realistic images, but brings to life the text as well. There is an afterwards by the author and illustrator. The only part […]



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