Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A friendship book made by friends, for friends

I Don’t Care by Julie Fogliano,

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I Don’t Care is a clever book. This is not just because of the text of Julie Fogliano, but how it came to be. The illustrators, Molly Idle and Juana Martinez-Neal are best friends, and they knew they had to do the art together. An afterwards (a small section at the end that you should read as well) shows how Molly thought since they lived 20 minutes from each other, easy peasy, right? Well, then Juana moved to Connecticut and the back and forth in […]

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My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano

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About a month ago, my cell totally pooped itself. I was able to factory reset it, losing everything in the process. Practically a month to the day, it poops itself again (just when I had gotten things back to mostly normal). Only this time it really “Shakespeare in the park” itself. (I was not allowed to swear as a child, so I used words that started with the same letter or sound. I think you can guess this one.) Therefore, I found myself on a […]

A House That Once Was

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Julie Fogliano (of When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons fame) and Lane Smith (illustrator of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups) have combined their talents for A House That Once Was. It is hard to describe this book outside of the basic a boy and girl explore an abandoned house and imagined the people and things that might have lived there. They do this by […]



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