Cannonball Read 18

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Pancakes, britches and home

Pancakes for Findus (Findus and Pettson) by Sven Nordqvist

The Van Buren Sisters vs. the Pants Police by J.F. Fox

A Garden Called Home by Jessica J. Lee and Elaine Chen

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Picture books are a great way to read books and have fun as well. You not only read a book (and can read several in a day: Think of a tailor and some flies and “seven in one blow”), but you can learn something. Like how to make pancakes out of your pants, or what britches are, and even that some plants need snow to help them grow. And not only that, you can just have a delightful story you can solo read or read […]

Smile! You’re exploding

Kaboom! A Volcano Erupts by Jessica Kulekjian

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Kaboom! A Volcano Erupts and I finally understand how a volcano happens! Jessica Kulekjian might have written a book meant for the younger crowd (oh about ages three and up) and then added extras for the up crowd with “side balloons” with more than the basic information, but this adult finally got the picture. And that was not just because Zoe Si made some adorable illustrations. This book has all the ins and outs of volcanoes in a way that is cute and informative. And […]

One seed

Big Tree by Brian Selznick

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While I did not completely love the grainy illustrations of Big Tree by Brian Selznick, I understand the reason for them and appreciate them. And there were several that were more fleshed out, but they felt few and far between. The story is a mature environmental tale with spiritual elements that is told by two seeds from a seed pod from Mama Sycamore. It does not sound like it makes sense, but it does, even if sometimes the flow of the story felt to be not as […]

Rabbit go home

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by James Sturm

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Watership Down: The Graphic Novel adapted by James Sturm and illustrated by Joe Sutphin took Richard Adams’ novel and made it into a lovely book about the power of the people, and lovely illustrations that show the good and the darkness around them. The story is the one you know and maybe loved as a child, but I was fresh to the story for the most part. I knew that there would be rabbits and people had said it was dark, but other than that, I had […]

Getting in too deep

The Children of the Sea, Volume one by Daisuke Igarashi

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The Children of the Sea, Volume one is a typical manga illustrated graphic novel. It is sparse and not always expressive, or gives all the information you think you might be needing. Yet, there is something about it that draws you into things, and the story has enough teases to it, to make you (or at least me) want more. Daisuke Igarashi was new to me as an author/illustrator, but I am thinking I might want to look into The Children of the Sea series […]

Pretty book!

Wild Animals of the World by Dieter Braun

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A book about animals that I did enjoy reading was, Dieter Braun’s Wild Animals of the World. This was read via an online reader copy (but is currently available), therefore, I am not completely sure of the dimensions of it, but I am assuming it is more picture book sized, and I have this feeling it might be at least slightly oversize or at least larger than usual. The theme is all the different animals and fun information about them given to us in short, […]



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