Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Adaptations of Classic tales

A Taste of Honey: Kamala Outsmarts the Seven Thieves ( by Rebecca Sheir

The Tale of the Unwelcome Guest: Nasruddin Teaches the Town a Lesson by Rebecca Sheir

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A few reviews back I wrote about another A Circle Round Book by Rebecca Sheir. Each one has been illustrated by different people. Therefore, that change might help you enjoy one over the other. But also, the flow and tone of the story is slightly different and that can help one’s enjoyment of them. The Great Ballgame was illustrated by Joshua Pawis-Steckley and is based on Native American mythology and culture. A Taste of Honey: Kamala Outsmarts the Seven Thieves (illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat) has […]

I want the bat on my team

The Great Ball Game: How Bat Settles the Rivalry Between the Animals and the Birds; A Circle Round Book by Rebecca Sheir

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The Great Ball Game: How Bat Settles the Rivalry Between the Animals and the Birds; A Circle Round Book came onto my radar due to the fact my bookstore will be having an event with this person in a few days. I figured, if I was to come and view it might be nice to have read the book (author appreciate that you know). When I read it online via a reader copy, I was glad I did not purchase it. I mean, it was […]

Special lesson and good food.

The Best Kind of Mooncake by Pearl Auyeung

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There are several books about kindness, and The Best Kind of Mooncake by Pearl Auyeung includes that lesson, plus ones about family, friendship, community, and culture, too. One morning in Hong Kong, a young girl and her siblings are promised a mooncake that was the best of the best. But they will have to wait, and the long day in her family’s spot in the market drags. Soon it is time to eat, but there is an odd thing that happens, making it so the […]

HandsValues & Virtues

Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman

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Three children and three different and diverse families are the focus of Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman. The families are two dads and a son, a mother and father and daughter (who is hearing different), and a young boy with this mother and grandmother. We follow them (what seems to be one day) where one dad goes off to work, where the other stays home with their son to make a surprise birthday party. One father flies off (as a piolet) and the mother […]

When a tumbleweed learns a little mindfulness

Slow Down, Tumbleweed! by Haven Iverson

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Slow Down, Tumbleweed! is not in Tumbleweeds vocabulary. Feeling the world is only worth living if they are flying and rushing through it, Tumbleweed is always go go going! They never stop to take a breath. That is, not until they become stuck on a fence on a farm. At first, Tumbleweed is sad, crying, missing the sights around them (such as a handsome badger). But soon they realize, there is much more to life when you stop and be still, when you stop and […]



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