Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Seeing through touch, taste, smell, and sound

I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea by Janice Milusich and Chris Raschka

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I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea is a lovely, poetic text and soft classical story that also has several modern takes. Author Janice Milusich’s text and Chris Raschka styled illustrations make up this familiar season’s story (we have a child who follows the seasons in the usual ways by talking about the sun, how things feel, colors and more) but this time there is a wonderful twist of having a visually impaired narrator. This narrator must experience these things differently, therefore seems to […]

Be connected to everything

Listen by Holly M. McGhee

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Listen by Holly M. McGhee is a spiritual and deep story. The reader can interpret the whom (the narrator) that is speaking as either an all-knowing narrator or it is plausible that the book is the child that we see in Pascal Lemaitre’s illustrations. Either interpretations make for interesting reading depending on your choice as both narrators are valid choices. The plot is to inspire empathy and to have us open all of ourselves, all our senses, to become aware of nature, of the world […]

Make sure you wear your best scent

 Wonder Mole's Scent Costume Party  by Pato Mena

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 Wonder Mole’s Scent Costume Party by Pato Mena was another book that there was great potential to the story but fell a more than a little flat at the end. The theme of having a “scent party” instead of a costume party for the moles, is a hoot. This is because moles are mostly blind and do not see well. Therefore, any fancy costumes are lost on them, but a good scent of a giraffe or other critter, is a feast for the nose! The lead up of […]



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