Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Getting your vroom on

Sarabeth's Garage by Melanie Florence and Nadia Alam

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Once again, I found a book that I almost did not read. I was going through online reader copy links and Sarabeth’s Garage by Melanie Florence popped up. It had a funny looking cover, realistic, but overly cartoon based. It was colorful and okay, but not “grabbing me.” Still I was looking at Sarabeth, on the cover, with a garage behind her. It wasn’t bad-looking, okay it definitely looked like this was going to be a “girl power, girls can do anything story” but was […]

Two pieces of history around the world

A Place Called Galveston by Andrea Shapiro

Claudia Said Sí!: The Story of Mexico's First Woman President by Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry Olitzky and Carlos Vélez Aguilera

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Recently I mentioned to a friend of mine that there are a lot of political titles happening, even in the children’s genres. And most are slanted seriously and obviously in one direction or the other. Therefore, when I find something that is not political, but could fit current events I try to pay attention.  Two of those books are A Place Called Galveston by Andrea Shapiro and illustrator Valerya Milovanova, as well as Claudia Said Sí!: The Story of Mexico’s First Woman President by Deborah […]

Boingy boingy goes the car and the jacket and the money and the shovel and the….

Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA by Stacy McAnulty

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Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA is not “ha ha” funny, but there is a tone of humor to the storytelling of Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley’s book. Maybe it is because I like a good yarn, a good road trip and have an odd sense of humor. But regardless of my thoughts of humor, this is one of my favorite books I read this month (and due to a recent vacation, I had a lot of books read). […]

A heck of an ol’ gal!

Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway Under Seattle by Amanda Abler

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History is not just the people on top of the Earth, but what we do below it as well. And Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway Under Seattle does a fantastic job of showing us both. But especially below. When the earthquake hit, damages were numerous, and the city had to find a way to stop the highway from collapsing again. It would take several years to find a way, but between the different sciences and global assistance, the drill […]

A Navy family takes a trip to home

Goodbye, Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure by Angela H. Dale

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Me the other day looking at online reader copies: Nope, don’t want to read that. Not that one. Oh, I’ll save that. Okay, what do we have here? A sailor and their kid? Nope. Is there anything I want to read????  A few days later: Again, nope, nope, oh it’s that sailor again… I just read something about it…okay let’s try Goodbye, Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure.  I expected Angela H. Dale’s book to be about a sailor who comes home to his family […]

Me, my sis and her car

K's Car Can Go Anywhere!: A Graphic Novel by Jonathan Tune

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K’s Car Can Go Anywhere!: A Graphic Novel by Jonathan Tune and Eleanor Doughty is an easier graphic novel read due out in October of 2024. I also read it via an online reader copy and not a physical reader copy, therefore, I think any bumps I had was due to the fact I was reading via screen and not the book in my hands. However, while I might read it again via that reader’s copy, I do not see myself finding a finished copy. […]



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