Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Read Me, Now!…. Please

A Star Explodes: The Story of Supernova 1054 by James Gladstone

We're Not Weird: Structure and Function in the Animal Kingdom by Michael Garland

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I just want to write a list of books labeled with the title: Read Me, Now! The two books below are those kinds of books. You should read them not because I say so, but because they are good (of course, my saying so alone should really be enough!) All titles were read via online reader copies.  A Star Explodes: The Story of Supernova 1054 is a story about a supernova. The poetic telling James Gladstone creates shows us the life and times from when […]

Wombats are weird, wild and wicked funny

Wombats Are Pretty Weird: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman

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I am not sure why there is a snake in Wombats Are Pretty Weird: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman, other than comic relief. Regardless of the way, the snake and we the reader, learn all the poop on wombats (or what could be put in a picture book for ages at least five and up). Most people know wombats have square poop, but did you know they have strong cartilage butts? Or there are three types? Or that they have backward facing […]

Lizards in the World

Lizards at Large: 21 Remarkable Reptiles at Their Actual Size by Roxie Munro

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Not only do you get the lizards that are illustrated in the book, at the end there are several columns more for your learning experience. To get a book that would have all of them would make it too large for the five and up group, but Lizards at Large: 21 Remarkable Reptiles at Their Actual Size is packed to the gills. Well, lizards do not have gills, but you can learn about what the do have in this book by Roxie Munro. Now, the […]

I live in a house with service mice and a grumpy old man

I Live in a Tree Trunk by Meg Fleming

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  I live in a tree trunk. I live in a barn. I live in a shoebox. I’m down on the farm… So say the animals (and much more) of I Live in a Tree Trunk. Each animal, in simple text by Meg Fleming and simple art by Brandon James Scott, tell us where they live. Things are aimed at the aged three and up, with a few rhymes to help pass the time. There is nothing OMG Best Book Ever! to this picture book, […]

Move over Tiny Rex! The Big Predators are in town!

Mega-Predators of the Past by Melissa Stewart

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“Dinosaurs? What is that? Something you put ointment on?” You will say after reading, Mega-Predators of the Past. Those (as the book says, but honestly, I agree with) scene stealing dinosaurs are nothing compared to the real predators of history. From the smallest (great scorpions and griffenflies (a really large dragonfly-like being) at 28 inches) to the largest (the over 100-foot blue whale) you will see the great creatures. Melissa Stewart gives us as it was. Or, in the case of the blue whale, how […]

Baby you’re the tops

Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals  by Linda Ashman

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Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals  might be one of my favorite books this year. Linda Ashman and Aparna Varma (illustrators wonderfully done by) crated a book that has facts, little fiction, and a lot of fun. A page of facts follows a poem about different animals and the things they do. Chomp well, stink well, and so much more. I am partial to the stinking ones (okay, I like some of the chompers, too. And then there is the ones […]



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