Cannonball Read 18

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Embrace your true self

It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn! by Jason Tharp

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While It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn!  is a fun and quirky story, it has been done before. The theme of be yourself and being different is okay has saturated the market. There is nothing new to Jason Tharp’s book. However, if you are looking for a new book to flesh out your collection, have someone who likes unicorns or horses or if you like colorful, bold and frankly goofy illustrations, then you need Tharp’s book. Cornelius makes the most amazing hats. The Mayor (Mayor […]

In a few months you too can love Poppy

A Way with Wild Things by Larissa Theule

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Because of the cover of A Way with Wild Things I was not sure about that little girl. Was she going to be funny? Smart? Something else? It looked like it could be fun, but how was the “wild” going to be presented? I quickly learned that this was a story about having a knack with nature, a story about a young girl who is a little anxious in the “real world” and finally how she might have been a wallflower once, but now she […]

I do not like it when I do not like a book and then have to review it

I Do Not Like That Name by Erin McGill

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I Do Not Like That Name started out fun, but the ending was rushed and flat. Erin McGill’s characters want an elephant and they can send in cereal box tops to get one. When the elephant finally arrives, it has no name. A quick rundown on how Sophia (a girl) and Herb (a rabbit) got them name happens. An even quick pick of the elephant’s name follows. Then end. Um. Okay. Next? McGill does have some cute illustrations that are fun to browse. Herb has […]

One Odd Dog to Go

Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph

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This weekend was a weekend filled with picture book reading, three graphic novels, a trip to drop the nephew off at his father’s and rewatching of the movie Coco (if you have not seen it, LOTS OF TISSUES required). In other words, a normal weekend that had a little bit of everything to fit the “at the moment” mood. And one of those moods was Odd. I have been putting off the picture book Odd Dog Out since I first found the reader copy. I […]

Finding your color

Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

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This was one of my holiday exchange books and my second time reading Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall. Being able to read it again, I was able to see things I missed before. It had more charm for me this time around. And this second read helped me compare it to other books of the same theme. The first time around reading Hall’s picture book, the subject was new to the scene and felt abrasive. While I am still not a hundred percent […]

Gone to the dogs

Antoinette by Kelly DiPucchio

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Antoinette is probably more a 2.5 than a three. There is something missing for me. Plus, the illustrations and I just are not meshing as I would have liked. Kelly DiPucchio is the author of the companion book Gaston as well as this one. If you do not know who Gaston is, that is fine. His story is told as needed to fit Antoinette’s story. However, you do not necessarily need to know who he was. But, of course, it does not hurt to have […]



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