Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Defender of the cosmos! Vanquisher of evil! Failure at frisbee!

Mr. Muffins by Georgeo Brooks

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Mr. Muffins by Ben Kahn and illustrated by Georgeo Brooks might not be due until mid-January 2025, but I think people should know about this graphic novel now. Not because I have read several books by Kahn or Brooks and loved them all (I haven’t) but because I think now I might see what I can find and that this book is going to be a fun read for most people. This is not a new idea. The theme is “You are afraid, but it’s […]

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 […]

Even a Hot Topic clerk will smirk at these

Oh My Goth: Jokes for When You Feel Dead Inside by Andrew Shaffer

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Ah, the creator Andrew Shaffer! The person I love to hate and hate to love! Yet, he keeps (pounding fists on my desk) DRAGS ME BACK! Time and time again! I am thinking, “OH Master has given Dobby clothes!” But oh no! Dobby has been fooled and I am right back reading another mad capped work by them! Okay, seriously, I really did not realize how prolific Shaffer is. Oh My Goth: Jokes for When You Feel Dead Inside is a small collection (read online […]

Animal Book Round Up Time

The Knight Owl #2 Knight Owl and Early Bird by Christopher  Denise

The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood

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It is Animal Book Round Up Time! Both books were read via an online reader copy.  The Knight Owl #2 Knight Owl and Early Bird is the second Knight Owl book by Christopher  Denise. (Though you must wait until mid October 2024 for it to be available.) We now have a young early bird who wants to be a Knight Owl as well, but of course, things do not work out as well as they would have liked. After all they are not an owl, […]

Buns on the run

Fluffle Bunnies V01 Buns Gone Bad by Anna Humphrey

Fluffle Bunnies V02 Big City Buns by Anna Humphrey

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Fluffle Bunnies V01 Buns Gone Bad is currently available, but I read it, and the sequel,  Fluffle Bunnies V02 Big City Buns, (due April 2025) via an online reader copy. Now, Anna Humphrey I will say you are probably a lovely person. I appreciate the hard work and time that goes into creating a book, even a quick read chapter book like this. However, I do not like your bunny siblings, Biggie, Boingy and Flop. Maybe kids will find things amusing, but I do not […]

Coffee, unicorns and music

Shy Steve by Katerina Spaeth

Giddy Up, Unicorn! by Dani Gomez

Eloísa's Musical Window by Margarita Engle

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Picture books all around me. How many can I read? Well, I try to read all of them, but of course, it’s impossible. So, I do the best I humanly can to make sure I find the right one(s) for me. Then, I narrow it down to the ones I want to review. That is not as easy as it sounds. But I was able to find a few for this review. All were read via online reader copies. We can start with Shy Steve […]



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