Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My body of work

Pond by Jim LaMarche

Dwayne Johnson by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

by Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Bodies Level One Body has several meanings. However, it usually means a physical breathing thing, or once was breathing., yet it can me an authors “body of work” or the body of your car. Or several other things. I am focusing on two types of body. A body of water and a human body. When a group of friends find a neglected pond in their favorite play area, the pass and present come together because of a body of water. Jim LaMarche’s Pond is […]

Remember the connection

Remember by Joy Harjo

by Leave a Comment

Joy Harjo’s poem is adapted in this picture book format. Remember is a simple and straightforward story about family, nature, and themselves. The illustrations are richly created by Michaela Goade. Both author and illustrator were inspired and influenced by their own cultural backgrounds (of the Mvskoke Nation and Tlingit culture respectfully). The story itself we know, but it is still powerful and thoughtful. But for me, the illustrations of Goade were what made the book pop. The images are deep, colorfully, busy details, something that […]

The hash-tagged elephant

The World’s Loneliest Elephant: Based on the True Story of Kaavan and His Rescue by Ralph Fletcher

by Leave a Comment

Another book that made me tear up is The World’s Loneliest Elephant: Based on the True Story of Kaavan and His Rescue by Ralph Fletcher. This is a story about Kaavan, the elephant that was taken from a sanctuary, given as a gift to a young girl, but lived in the Pakistani zoo for years. Of course, at the time the conditions were beyond horrific. To the point that when finally animal activist Dr. Amir Khalil organized the elephants rescue, it was almost unable to […]

“Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.”

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

by 2 Comments

In one word: Gutting I have something shocking to say. I hope you’re sitting down. I’m behind in my book reviews. I KNOW, I KNOW. Utterly surprising, as um, it’s become my habit, wherein I let a few books pile up, and then stress about being “behind” which I am using quotation marks to illustrate the falsity of this statement. Because how can I be “behind” in a hobby that is supposed to be fun. I mean, these are not required book reviews for a […]

Take a hike

The Hike: (Nature Book for Kids, Outdoors-Themed Picture Book for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners) by Alison Farrell

by Leave a Comment

The Hike: (Nature Book for Kids, Outdoors-Themed Picture Book for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners) probably is all you need to know about the book. Yet, to expand it is a fictional story of three friends (though there is an image that makes it seem as if they are siblings), who go on a hike to explore. And they find a little of this and a little of that and of little of something else. The hike results in the three of them finding the big and […]

How Great is this reef anyway?

The Great Barrier Reef by Helen Scales

by Leave a Comment

I recently read a graphic novel (from First Second publishers) about coral reefs; therefore, The Great Barrier Reef by Helen Scales had some repetition. Yet, this book was focused on the Great Barrier Reef, and not all the worlds coral reefs. This allows what was learned before to now be applied to the one specific area. Lisk Feng illustrations are what really makes the story for me. They are not photographs, but neither are they cartoonish. This in-between approach was refreshing. You are learning, but […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo