Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Even an Irish fairy could learn from this Viking Maid

Viking Strong by Doug Cenko

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Ingrid has everything a Viking wants, a best friend, kittens, a good home. But she would like to enter and win the Strongest Viking Contest. However, the thing stopping her? she can’t swim. She sinks. But she trains and when the day comes, she gets to prove how strong a strong Viking really is. Doug Cenko’s Viking Strong is funny. If you like kittens and cats, there are a lot of amusing parts with them. There are lots of dressing up our kittens, racing our […]

There are bumps, but only if you miss all the pieces

Luna and the Treasure of Tlaloc by Joe Todd-Stanton

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CBR15Passport book set in and author from another country (Aztec Americas) and author grew up in England As much as I enjoy The Brownstone’s Magical Collection series, and Luna and the Treasure of Tlaloc in particular (I like the Aztec mythology addition) there is one thing that people might dislike. There is some “White Saviorism” that people might see, as it is up to Luna, a white child, to help Atzi (the child that will take the offering to the God Tlaloc for her village […]

Touching the Impossible

The Impossible Mountain  by David Soman

I Touched the Sun by Leah Hayes

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The Impossible Mountain and I Touched the Sun have a slightly common theme. The main thing of each book is that of believing in yourself and trying impossible things. David Soman’s The Impossible Mountain was more fun for me. It had a more solid story and illustrations that spoke to me more strongly. That is not to say that I Touched the Sun by Leah Hayes was bad, it was just not my type of read.   I Touched the Sun is due May 2023. And […]

Popsicles that are out of this world

Moon Pops by Heena Baek

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The Kirkus Reviews said: “Whimsically varied perspectives” and the publisher description says: A witty, weird, and wonderful spin on a classic Korean folktale.” Moon Pops is all that and more. This (according to publisher description) is the first picture book for Heena Baek to be published in English (translated by Jieun Kiaer). Moon Pops has a folktale feeling, and a translated tone. This means that you are getting something that can feel a bit “sophisticated” and maybe a smidgen “talking down” to the younger reader. […]

“Whichever story you believe, my mother, Chang’e, became immortal. As did I.”

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

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A child of the Moon Goddess, and an immortal herself,  Xingyin grows up on the moon, with just her mother & their family servant/long time companion. For the most part, the three of them are happy, if isolated. Xingyin senses a grief in her mother that she can’t quite explain, and within herself she feels a growing sense to reach out … for something more. She can’t label it, and her mother has warned her against reaching for it, but the pull towards that other […]

What do a hippo, worm, lightbulb and a dinosaur have in common? Their books are mentioned in this review!

The Secret Rhino Society by Jonathan E. Jacobs

The Legend of King Arthur-A-Tops by Mo O’Hara

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I was in a bit of a reading slump but realized that it was because I was not reading the right books. I was trying to read novels and was in the mindset for picture books. Those fun, clever little gems that takes a few minutes to read, but you feel accomplished after. After all, think of the child just reading; they cannot do War and Peace, but when they read a book of a few dozen pages, a few hundred words or so, and […]



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