Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

To Build or Not to…. Nah! Just to Build!

In Made by Maxine by Ruth Spiro

Builder Brothers: Big Plans by Jonathan and Drew Scott

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In reverse alphabetical order, this review covers two different books about building, about trying and not giving up. In Made by Maxine by Ruth Spiro, we see our heroine trying to figure out how to make things bigger and better. When she gets a pet fish (who she thinks is waving at her), she builds it the biggest, funniest, craziest fish tank as the bowl she had for him was just too dull. And how proud both are of it! That is until the class […]

Who hasn’t know a Unicorn?

Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All by Bob Shea

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I am not sure how Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All by Bob Shea compares to the first book (Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great) as I have not read it (or if I have, it made no impression whatsoever). This time Unicorn is jealous of the new “hot thing” (rubber bands looking like other things: a soccer ball, wagon wheel, port holes…) and tries to make a new and improved Unicorn. Of course, the plan backfires with a face full of glitter. A […]

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, ‘What about me?’ and you can just hear the universe replying, ‘Well, what about you?'”

Thief of Time (Discworld, #26) by Terry Pratchett

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There wasn’t enough Death in this, but then again, he’s done all his growing already in other books, so that was probably the smart choice. I still really enjoyed it. The actual main characters of this book are Death’s granddaughter, Susan, who has reached the ultimate peak of her badassdom; a history monk named Lu-Tze; and his apprentice, Lobsang. The history monks are cool. They live in this place where Time doesn’t really exist, and their job is to basically monitor history, and in a […]

When Uncle Earl says “Stay in the van.” STAY in the van!

The Night Door (Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker book one) by Frank Cammuso

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The Night Door (Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker book one) has strong 7 to 10-year-old boy reader written all over this.  There is potty humor (the pun of humans wear underwear/and they go to the Underwhere world), funny monsters (a possessed by darkness giant cat that likes to chase the light of the flashlight), great (mostly great) hero and his sister (who is pretty spunky, has a cool pet hamster, and like her brother, not keen of the dark)! Girls will enjoy as well if they […]

Time Spent With Cats is Never Wasted

The Complete Chi's Sweet Home, Part 1 by Kanata Konami, Ed Chavez (Translator)

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I’m pretty sure I’ve never read manga before I picked up The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home. I know some of the reasons I didn’t pick one up before, (honestly, I blame Sailor Moon TV Show – I didn’t like it at all and there’s something about the overly large eyes typical of manga that bothers me) but it was mostly just a decision I had made that the manga/comics section of the bookstore or library wasn’t for me. I was wrong. While I read more […]

You’re not heavy you’re my twin

Twins: A Picture Book by Mike Ciccotello

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Twins: A Picture Book is a slightly limited audience story as it is aimed at twins. But like the stories about how friends do not have like the same things or can like the same things but do them differently or even how sometimes even friends/twins fight and love it can be relatable to different people. Our twins play everything from leap frog to piano duets, and love being a twin, even when they disagree. The sibling dynamic is perfectly portrayed in fun, light text. […]



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