Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Purple thumbs and stabby plants

Prunella by Beth Ferry

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Along with Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden by Christy Mandin, the picture book Prunella by Beth Ferry and illustrated by Claire Keane, has given me a new category for books I like: Plants that are Not Your Cute Fluffy Pretty Garden Variety. The surface story is the same with both books: girls who love the spookier, odd, weird, dangers, spiky, thorny plants. They like them so much that they are isolated from their communities and peers. In both cases, the parent(s) encourage this individuality, even if […]

Learn how to go

Space: The Final Pooping Frontier by Annabeth Bondor-Stone,

A Stinky History of Toilets: Flush with Fun Facts and Disgusting Discoveries (Wacky Histories) by Oliva Meikle

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Have you ever needed a bathroom? Usually you’re close enough to one so there are no issues. Yet, what happens when there are no bathrooms? You just might have a messy situation, that’s what. Now, we all take it for granted. It is just what it is. Though, if you are like me, you might have a story or two (I have done or seen: tinkling on a snake, slipped on some wet leaves, used a (thankfully) one-seater in the middle of winter, and would […]

The Prize is nothing less than the Shape of the Cosmos…. and other cliches

How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe by Ken Krimstein

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cbr16bingo And also…:  (Vintage, even though I haven’t (as of this posting) posted by review. It is a specific historical time and events) If it wasn’t for Albert Einstein, generations of high school students would not have been tortured by a dude and a cockroach. Thanks a lot Al! How do you ask? Well read How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe by Ken Krimstein. Or at least that is what I got from the first part/the introduction of […]

A tour of the solar system in prose, poetry, and prosody (from Kirkus Reviews (03/01/2024))

A Planet Is a Poem by Amanda West Lewis

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I will start with, unfortunately I did not finish A Planet Is a Poem by Amanda West Lewis and illustrated by Oliver Averill. Not because it is a bad book, but because it is a fantastic book. It is just a difficult read via an online copy for me. Also, the subjects (planets and poetry) are not something everyone would be into. Plus it is really not in a format that one expects when talking about space, planets or poetry. It is not pure science […]

It’s one of those new-fangled velocipedes!

The Running Machine: The Invention of the Very First Bicycle by Keith Negley

Birth of the Bicycle: A Bumpy History of the Bicycle in America 1819–1900 by Sarah Nelson

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Now, the final two (and if you are reading this before the other reviews about bikes, that should read: the first two) books I was going to add to a one review about bicycle books are The Running Machine: The Invention of the Very First Bicycle by Keith Negley (due mid-late July 2024) and Birth of the Bicycle: A Bumpy History of the Bicycle in America 1819–1900 by Sarah Nelson and illustrated by Iacopo Bruno (due early July). I know I could babble on about […]

I’m not cold, just my habitat

Cold by Tim McCanna

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Cold is different for everyone. Poetry is different for everyone. And in Tim McCanna’s picture book, Cold, we get a lovely, lush illustrated book that has a story within the art as well as complimenting the text that deals with both subjects. The poetry is how the rhyming text with each page gives us a short burst of poetic information about how in cold there is life and how the cold itself is a character that moves about, leading us to the different places the […]



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