Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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, […]

The beautiful stuff

Duck, Duck, Tiger by Brittany R. Jacobs

For the Beauty of the Earth by Folliott S. Pierpoint

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Two more I read via online reader copies (and are available) titles are below. Sadly, no themes, just two fun books that people need to know about. And as we know, knowing is half the battle! One little girl feels like a tiger. Which would be fine except all the people in Duck, Duck, Tiger are, you guessed it, ducks. The classic idea of trying to fit in, when you are very different, is alive and strong here. And yes, we have seen it before, […]

The new Guardian Knights

Juniper Mae Volume One: Knight of Tykotech City by Sarah Soh

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I had a small adventure when I first tried to read Juniper Mae Volume One: Knight of Tykotech City. Nothing fancy, just I had an online link, lost it, then found it again. Who knows how that happened; but it did. Then recently I went back to my stored online reader copies and was deleting the links that were no longer active. But Sarah Soh’s short graphic novel was. And since this was published March 2023 you can run out and get the book, too. […]

One large pizza, extra scorpions

 How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?: Wild Facts about Animals and the Scientists Who Study Them by Brooke Barker

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How Do Meerkats Order Pizza? I think they would call up their favorite joint and say, “A large cheese and scorpion pie please. And hold the eagle feathers.” (Or something like that.)  That is of course, if they ate pizza. They do eat scorpions though, and in How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?: Wild Facts about Animals and the Scientists Who Study Them we learn some amazing and fantastic facts about animals. Some of which we might not usually see in a book, so that is very cool. And even […]

I won’t bite, unless you ask really nice, but these insects might!

Please Don't Bite Me! : Insects that Buzz, Bite and Sting by Nazzy Pakpour

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Please Don’t Bite Me! : Insects that Buzz, Bite and Sting is actually more of a 3.5  than four rating as there are a few illustrations that were somewhat abstract. The first one was the mosquito being shown biting  a victim. The body, head, and everything else did not look real, therefore, it all blended together. The text, on the other hand, is good. Straight forward, covering a few pages for each insect and covers several pieces of the puzzle of that particular insect. And […]



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