Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Bullies, Lies and The Answer

Farah Rocks Fifth Grade t by Susan Muaddi Darraj

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The first point I need to make is that there were a few “technical” difficulties with the story for me. It reads as if it was book two/three in a series. While researching to see if it was a series, I noticed that it looks like just Farah Rocks will not be out until at least August 2020. However, there is enough information in Farah Rocks Fifth Grade to be a stand-alone title and a “prequel” is not needed. Susan Muaddi Darraj created a book […]

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

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Double Bingo! (2nd Row Down, Third Across- in Red… Blood Red… Mwahahaha) OK, I loved these books in school, loooovvved them. I must have read all three 5 or six times each. So, for the Back to School Square I decided to give the first one a re-read when I found it in my local used book store. This book gets four stars because it is a really good collection of American folk lore, shoot, it gets one whole star from me just for the […]

Dealing with those pesky feelings

This Makes me Jealous by Courtney Carbone

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On a five-minute break at work the other day, I looked at the received books that were to go to the children’s floor and the back cover of this book was facing me as well as oddly interesting. Turning it over I found This Makes me Jealous with a very upset young lady on the cover. What pray tell, Courtney Carbone (author of said book) is making our young friend so cross? What it is, is the new girl, Amy, at school. She comes in […]

Q: What do ye call a pirate with two eyes and two legs? (A: A Rookie! )

Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten by Lisa Robinson

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I am not crazy about the story of Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten due to the slightly bratty nature of the main pirate. I mean, character. Emma is not fond of the idea of “moving on” to kindergarten from preschool. The ship will not be the same without her favorite cubbies, spots and most importantly, her favorite captain. Besides, going to kindergarten means her new captain is one that explores the universe. And what fun is that? This idea of not wanting change, is not […]

His first day of kindergarten

The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes

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The best part of The King of Kindergarten is it is just a story about going to kindergarten. There is nothing preachy or moral giving about it. There are great illustrations and a fun story about one young man’s adventures when he goes off to his first day of kindergarten. The not so best of The King of Kindergarten is it is just a story about going to kindergarten. While it has a more modern feel and tone than books of the past, there is […]

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.

King Solomon's Mines by HR Haggard

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CBR11Bingo – School So the connection to Bingo here is that when I first got to grad school, I was a TA for a Children’s Lit class that mostly focused on the kinds of writing that Victorian children would have been exposed to in their childhood, when the concept of children’s writing was pretty slim in general. This book is an interesting artifact and an interesting historical text in terms of seeing what kinds of cultural teaching was happening through literature, especially as a time […]



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