Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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A Book Personality

Little Blue House Beside the Sea by Jo Ellen Bogart

Play Outside by Laurent Moreau

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Picture books are a great way to sit and read a good book, but you do not have to invest a large amount of time into them. Besides, they can help you learn about people’s personalities. These two books are great “personality finders.” One is a modern story, but has a soft, old-school, classic feel; while the other is more modern. Knowing the audience that will enjoy these can help you find a novel for them. Yet, there is nothing wrong with a good picture […]

Published in 1964 and still going strong

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

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As a kid, a neighbor of ours adopted my sister and me as “great nieces.”  She worked at the local library and would bring us at least one brown paper grocery bag filled with picture books every so often. I do no remember any Ezra Jack Keats books being in there, but I am sure there was one or two. Same with library time at school; I am sure teachers read them to us. Therefore, whenever I find a Keats book, it is for the […]

When the Big Apple is right in front of you

Nelly Takes New York: A Little Girl’s Adventures in the Big Apple by Allison Pataki

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There are a lot of literally pieces to the story Nelly Takes New York: A Little Girl’s Adventures in the Big Apple that I am not sure about or sure that I liked. These are things like Nelly wandering around modern New York City at about age eight or nine with only a cheeky beagle dog as a companion. And none of the adults think this odd. Now, I get that the vendor on the same street as Nelly would be someone she could speak […]

When a book finds you

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

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While I immensely enjoyed Other Words for Home ’s book did not “hit me in the face, turned me around and kick me in the butt.” I think what I was looking for was more of the current events mentioned (such as which bombing Jude was mentioning) and maybe more interacting with Jude and her cousin. Since Warga mentions in the afterward she had a personality more like the cousins than Jude growing up, Warga would be the perfect vessel to show both sides of […]

“Sisters, sisters There were never such devoted sisters”

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Another book that has potential and then just fizzled out for me was The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful. It was another book that I thought pages had stuck together, I had missed something or if the unfinished copy had pages go out of order. I could tell that Nancy Tupper Ling had put in a lot of effort into her text, but sadly, it was lost on me. I just could not get into it. It was Andrea Offermann’s illustrations that made the […]

The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans

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Based on a true story, Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans gives a softer view of a very true hardship the people of North Korea face. When a village in South Korea decides to secretly send balloons filled with rice to feed the hungry people of North Korea, they are faced with many obstacles: the other villagers do not want to give aide to the enemy. The North Korean soldiers could see the balloons and shoot them down. They do not […]



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