Cannonball Read 18

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Simonie and the Dance Contest  by Gail Matthews

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Simonie and the Dance Contest  will not be for everyone. It has a voice that is probably slightly older than the format and possibly a bit too classical sounding (even though it is coming out in August of this year). Gail Matthews book introduces the people of Taloyoak, Nunavut, and one boy who love of reading and dancing.  While perhaps more culture could have been brought in, the story is about trying, practicing and learning about listening to the music. It is set at Christmas […]

When Jitterbug meet Pudding

The Someone New. by Jill Twiss

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From the author and illustrator team of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, you get another clever story with a modern twist. E.G. Keller’s signature illustration style mixes with Jill Twiss’s story smoothly in this new picture book, The Someone New. Jitterbug is a chipmunk that likes things to stay the same. If things are new, well she starts to get the jitters something awful. And one day she knows something Brand New is going to […]

Oh boy! Oh boy!

Dear Boy by Paris Rosenthal

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I do not remember reading mother and daughter Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal’s collaboration Dear Girl. But if I had, it obviously did not make much of an impression. Therefore, I was unsure what to exactly expect from daughter and father collaborators, Paris and Jason Rosenthal’s Dear Boy. Though, I had my suspicions. And basically, what came out of my reading of Dear Boy was exactly what I was expecting: a sentimental, modern, touchy-feely and obvious book. It is a “make yourself a kinder, […]

I wish I had read this before I had my toxic relationship

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up Me by Mariko Tamaki

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When I first picked up, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, I am embarrassed to say the cover and reading the title made my first thought about the book be, “Another whiny dude gets dumped by his hot, selfish girlfriend.” I was partly right. It is “Girl gets dumped by her hot, selfish girlfriend.” Then I saw it was a First Second graphic novel. They do not do easy or traditional reads. Even Stargazing has a surprise at the end that is not light […]

“I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn’t really hit you, and then when it does, that’s when you feel like sh**.”

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is typical Jesse Andrews. This style of writing is exactly like Haters (I read them in reverse). The nice thing is both are standalone titles. I read the paper edition but looked at the hardcover and movie cover editions and have to say, I like the bright yellow cover best. Then the hard cover as it makes the characters somewhat like I pictured them. However, the movie? Oh boy! I think they totally missed on what the characters […]

“A refrigerator is not a moose”

The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter

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When you read a book like this, you have to ask yourself, “How am I currently feeling?” Granted that is for all things read as your mood can affect the way to think and feel about a book/article/etc. But if you are in a good mood The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter most likely was a fantastic book about how facts are buried when they do not suit the person/people who are burying them. If you are in a less than good mood mostly […]



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