Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Should I give my frog a mug of hot chocolate too?

Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate? How Animals Keep Warm by Etta Kaner

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I like a fun science book. A book that does not go deep diving into all the ins and outs of a subject. I like to get my feet wet and then see how far I want to explore. And with Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate? How Animals Keep Warm I am in the shallow end of the wadding pool. You get your feet wet as an adult, but the aged three and up gets up to their waists, laughing and learning with the best […]

She might be slow, but she will (eventually) solve the crime!

Sloth Slueth by Cyndi Marko

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Sloth Slueth by Cyndi Marko is a cute mystery with stereotypical kid humor (sloths only poop once a week, so we see her mystery pondering and pooping on the ol’ commode). The story has the basic theme of a sloth trying to solve the question of who is trying to drive the café out of business by poisoning the customers, but young readers will get a kick out of it. They will also enjoy the fact that there is a slight difference to the characters. […]

“The caterpillars were ordered to appear in court on the twenty-eighth of June, at a specified hour, where they would be assigned legal representation.”

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

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I was so happy when Mary Roach announced this book, because I have been missing her writing. I never read her last book, even though I tried and couldn’t get more than ten minutes in before waving the white flag, because reading about warfare and war and its consequences is something that I found actively unpleasant. And this book sounded so silly! And it’s about animals. I fucking love animals! Even the ones most people dislike, like rats and spiders and snakes. I anticipated laughter […]

Pure-blooded animals for the Aryan to kill? Let’s get right on that.

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

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During the late 1930s, Antonina and Jan Źabiński, along with their young son Ryś, were leading an idyllic life as caretakers of a small zoo, set in a parklike setting on the bank of the Vistula River in the Old Town of Warsaw, Poland.  Antonina had a special gift for dealing with animals in need, and their villa, on the zoo grounds, was full of animals that need a bit of extra help, including Ryś’ pet badger, and was fondly known as “The House Under […]

This isn’t your father’s Jungle Book…..

Sengi and Tembo by G. Falco

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FYI: I have some not fort his book images becaue I can and I like them! If Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities created a book together, the graphic novel Sengi and Tembo by G. Falco (or Giuseppe Falco) probably would be the results. Rebellion, status quo, life, and the ultimate equalizer death all come together in a dark, somewhat comedic commentary on not only how things should be but can become. Sengi is a young mouse that quickly learns the dangers of […]

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Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel

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Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin by Deborah Kerbel and illustrated by Angela Poon is a graphic novel that is based on the true events that lead to the discovery that would easily save over 100 million people: insulin. There is simple text showing the events of the early 1920s that made it possible to treat type 1 diabetes, or Juvenile diabetes. There are the images that show that before the early 1920s the treatment was starvation and therefore, […]



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