Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When nonsense makes sense

Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins

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If I ever meet Michael Robbins I hope I can say to them, “Dude. You are F’ed up.” And I hope he smiles and says, “Thanks.” Everything is nonsense in Alien vs. Predator. Yet it seems to make sense when it clearly does not make sense. (Or does it?) His words are strung together in a pattern of letters and words and grammar and punctuation and lines on a page that are alive and moving and telling a story and flowing and just assaulting the […]

When a 42 page book makes you write a 500 word review

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by  Mac Barnett

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The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett is that it is not like his other books. The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown is that she was an author. The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown is that Barnett and Sarah Jacoby have created a book that you must experience. It cannot be told/written about. This book is 42 pages long. As many pages as years Brown lived. It will bring strong emotions to the forefront. It will tell you about Brown’s life in […]

Little pops of sunshine

GMorning GNight!:Little Pep Talks for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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I bought this book for my son who is a fan of all things Hamilton, and to be honest, has a tendency to be a bit of a grump.  I thought that this book might help him when he was feeling out of sorts, and that he might actually read it because it was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.  Voracious reader that he is, he powered through this book rather quickly, and seemed to enjoy it.  I had been having a challenging time balancing work and […]

One book, 10 friends and a heck of a good time

How to Two by David Soman

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First look at How to Two makes it look like a book about kids playing. And it. However, David Soman twists it up a bit with the how the kids start to play.  Over all this is a terribly clever book. It has rich, deep, solid illustrations. The story works well for a classroom or one-on-one reading. It is educational and fun. What it is not, however, is one of my OMG LOOOOVE this book! The idea of counting from one to ten by each […]

Come on a trip across country

You are Home: An Ode to the National Parks by Evan Turk

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You are Home: An Ode to the National Parks by Evan Turk is an amazing picture book that boarders on an art book that captures the feelings, places, colors, animals and people of the national parks of the United States. It is a poetic story that has the reader flow across the pages seeing what makes the wild of the parks wild, bold and free. The authors afterwards cover not only the authors own personal journey and connection to the national parks he has had […]

When a book finds you

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

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While I immensely enjoyed Other Words for Home ’s book did not “hit me in the face, turned me around and kick me in the butt.” I think what I was looking for was more of the current events mentioned (such as which bombing Jude was mentioning) and maybe more interacting with Jude and her cousin. Since Warga mentions in the afterward she had a personality more like the cousins than Jude growing up, Warga would be the perfect vessel to show both sides of […]



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