Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Building bridges

The Paper Bridge by Joelle Veyrenc and Seng Soun Ratanavanh

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One morning I opened my emails to find a Floris Books email saying I was a winner from the Grabbing a Galley from the Publishers Weekly campaign and there was an online link that was in the email. It hadn’t been that long since I had entered, but I had forgotten the titles I had hoped for. Therefore it was Christmas and I was opening the book present I always love getting. This one was the picture book, The Paper Bridge created by Joelle Veyrenc, […]

I like the complex simplicity

Boy Here, Boy There by Chuck Groenink

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A recent lunchtime was a few small pieces of cold pepperoni pizza, a lime seltzer (I really don’t like seltzer but I’m expanding my literal tastes) and a few online books. One of those was Boy Here, Boy There by Chuck Groenink.  I will start with the ending of the book, or more specifically, the extras at the end. They talk about how Neanderthal and Homo sapiens were. Mostly focusing on Neanderthal, as the main character is a boy of a tribe of Neanderthals, we […]

Produce the produce

Grandma’s Roof Garden by Tang Wei

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I have been reading several intense books lately. Therefore I decided that I needed to cleanse the palette. And what better way to do that but with food and books. Then I found Grandma’s Roof Garden. As I munched my Hemingwing (a chicken sandwich with goat cheese, some funky herbal mayo, and onion jam) I read this book by Tang Wei and translated by Kelly Zhang. Though it is currently available, I read it via an online reader copy. I might find a few physical […]

Man makes our art story

Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art by Hannah Salyer

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Though currently available, I read via an online reader copy. And I have rounded up my rating to a 4 from a 3.5. This is because there was some repetition), or a few “bumps” while I was reading. Of course, each reader will take something different from it.  And as said, I read via online, so I am not sure the exact dimensions, but I am assuming it is a larger than usual picture book.  But regardless,  Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave […]

Drag Queens and Dinosaurs have bellies

B Is for Bellies by Rennie Dyball

Parker’s Place by Russ Willms

Big Wig by Jonathan Hillman

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I was going to use B Is for Bellies by Rennie Dyball as my Bingo Bodies but found another one instead. Therefore, I just decided to add this to a review of two other books about being yourself. Starting with a bunch of bellies (well, we have A first as B is for Bellies is an alphabet book)  we have a self explanatory picture book. This book is about big bellies, small bellies, black and brown, and white and purple bellies (okay maybe not purple). […]

Be the grandfather

My Grandfather's Song by Phùng Nguyên Quang,

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cbr15bingo Guide: We must be the guides for the next generations to keep the conservation of our world happening. My Grandfather’s Song at first seemed like it was going in one direction, but it does a slight turn. The beginning seems more of how nature is wild and therefore for us to learn from, but the turn comes when the narrator shows us how everything is connected and respect is given to the wild. We see all this with how the narrator grows. You will […]



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