Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Junior High but with magic and glitter

Kira and the (Maybe) Space Princess: (A Graphic Novel) (Magic Girls) by Megan Brennan

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Kira and the (Maybe) Space Princess: (A Graphic Novel) (Magic Girls) by Megan Brennan is a three rounded from a 2.5 rating. This is because on one level this graphic novel is a cute, manga inspired, girl power story. It is a typical “in middle school and it stinks (only I didn’t say stinks)” story. We have the outsider looking in, but wants to be on the inside. However, on the other hand these are not the nicest people in the universe. And I say […]

Why you get that 4 AM caterwaul

Cat Dads: Your Guide to Feline Fatherhood by Alison Davies

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This might upset a few cat people, especially the ones who believe all cats are angels from heaven and need names like Lady La Boom-Boom, or Sir Wigglesbottom the Fourth, but I do not fawn over cats (dogs or babies). Because while I think they are cute, I know they are a lot of work. And this book, Cat Dads: Your Guide to Feline Fatherhood, proves it.  You need to know how to read their ear movements, their head butts, even why their butts are […]

Art in the eye of the beholder

How Dreadful by Claire Lebourg

Corner by Zo-O

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Art is in the eye of the beholder and that is very true in How Dreadful! This book is about a young artist, named Paty, who only has a few days before her art opening and nothing is ready yet. Having friends pose for her is not the problem, but their feelings about what they see as the final portraits are. That is until the art is in the show and others see the works. Claire Lebourg’s story was not necessarily for me, as I was thinking […]

Lots of Good Stuff in these books

Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras by Nelson Rodriguez

Fiona the Fruit Bat by Dan Riskin

What's Inside a Bird's Nest?: And Other Questions about Nature & Life Cycles by Rachel Ignotofsky

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I like books. You like books. The neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras likes books. And Luis likes books in Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras. A lot. And he cannot wait for the bookmobile to come once a week. He cannot wait for the adventures he will find inside books. And he cannot wait for the happy feelings he gets by reading, then telling, the stories. Nelson Rodriguez, Leonardo Agustin Monetes, Rosana Faria, Carla Tabora, and Lawrence Schimel got together and wrote, illustrated and […]

Just because I’m physically an adult doesn’t mean I don’t like kids books.

Copy That, Copy Cat!: Inventions Inspired by Animals by Katrina Tangen

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I am an adult. Okay, I am physically an adult. Mentally I am the perfect audience for Copy That, Copy Cat!: Inventions Inspired by Animals. Or at least the part about peeking into cutouts and opening the flaps. The idea of biomimicry might be a little over my head, yet, somehow a board book introduced the subject perfectly. Due to the board book format, this might turn off some of the older readers who would be able to “get deeper” into things, but if in […]

Two beginner reads your your beginner reader

Mossy and Tweed: Double Trouble (I Like to Read Comics) by Mirka Hokkanen

The Lost Mitten (I Like to Read Comics)  by Jannie Ho

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A while back I saved the online link to Mossy and Tweed: Double Trouble (I Like to Read Comics) by Mirka Hokkanen. Then I needed a quick read at lunch recently. I found my saved link and read a cute story about the “new unicorn in town” who is “better and flashier” and all that jazz. Of course, in the end the Old Wise Unicorn needs to save the day and the two Unicorns become friends. The adult reader will see that Old Wise Unicorn is not so […]



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