Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sailing with a cat, dog, parrot, rat and some humans

 Trim Sets Sail  by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Helps Out  by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Saves the Day. by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Sails the Storm  by Deborah Hopkinson

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#CBR16SweetBooks  Binge (four books same series/read back-to-back) Recently I accidentally found myself bingeing a series when I found (in my old) online reading links to copies of Trim Helps Out and Trim Sets Sail by Deborah Hopkinson (the author of way too many wonderful books to name here) and illustrated by Kristy Caldwell (illustrator of some delightful other books such as two I enjoyed, Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird and Flowers for Sarajevo). Both of the new found titles are from October 2023, and I read them out of order (as […]

Talk About Flipping the Bird

Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird by Lori Mortensen

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Okay, I have to say it: Isabella Bird flipped off Victorian society and still was presented to the Queen herself. Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird is a lovely story about an adventurous woman, Isabella Bird, who challenged not only herself, but societies views on what a woman can and cannot do. And she mostly did it all wearing the “proper attire” of a skirt. She was a proper lady, until she was wearing bloomers, or hanging off a cliff with a […]



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