Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Yabba Dabba Ghost

Diary of a Dinoghost V01Unlikely Friends by Monica Arnaldo

Diary of a Dinoghost V02 Sworn Enemies by Monica Arnaldo

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I had a list of online reader copies. And Diary of a Dinoghost boos …   I mean books … one and two kept coming up. I figured I had a few days to read them as the first Unlikely Friends was due in August 2026 and two is due in November 2026 under the name, Sworn Enemies. They are both written and illustrated by Monica Arnaldo and are part of the A Branches Book grouping. Anyway, I kept putting them off, but one day […]

Sixty-six million years ago or Ya know the other day

One Cosmic Rock: The Story of the Asteroid that Changed Our World by Julia Vasileva

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Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hurtled through space toward an ancient Earth that looked very different from the one we know today. And in One Cosmic Rock: The Story of the Asteroid that Changed Our World by Karen Krossing we see how that came to be in poetic language for the picture book crowd.   Good for ages five and up, this book is a simple, but involved, non-fiction story that has interesting illustrations by Julia Vasileva. They are neither realistic or abstract, but a […]

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 […]

You don’t look like a scientist

The Clues Are in the Poo: The Story of Dinosaur Scientist Karen Chin by Karen Chin and Jane Kurtz

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I was recently given a paperback copy of The Clues Are in the Poo: The Story of Dinosaur Scientist Karen Chin. I was excited because I am a fan of teaching kids science in a fun way and seriously, don’t most kids like poo? Now, maybe I wouldn’t have been all that “into poo” back in my younger years, but I know most kids are. And granted, as an adult, I have learned many things by taking a humorous or less traditional format (and yes […]

Baby it’s cold outside (for a couple thousands years) now

What Was the Ice Age? by Nico Medina

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One of the nice things about a subject and not a person is, while you can contest some facts or you are always adding to the knowledge at hand, a theme like The Ice Age is not necessarily controversial (compared to someone like Walt Disney, Michael Jackson, Helen Keller, or even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). Therefore, when I was reading this addition to the “Who/What” series I was really reading it and not wondering, “Are they going to mention X?” Or “Will they get […]

When T-Rex honked

Everything Awesome about Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts! by Mike Lowery

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I could not finish Everything Awesome about Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts! by Mike Lowery not because it was bad, but because it was awesome and I had to go back to work and not sit and read. Also, (long story, please get comfy) this was part of a set of books we received that were free from an online event at work. I decided to do the nice thing and give them to some people who had some other free swag coming to them. Therefore, […]



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