Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Gnome for the holidays

Christmas Gnomes (Gnome for the Holidays) by Kelly Green and Lisa Alderson

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I was browsing through some titles the other day in an online catalog. I found Christmas Gnomes (Gnome for the Holidays) by Kelly Green and Lisa Alderson (illustrator). I did not know what the form was (and in fact, didn’t know the story) but knew I had to get it as a gift for my sister who is a gnome lover. In fact, she’s such a lover of the fuzzy capped beings that once I asked her if she minded me getting a gnome I […]

My review became longer than the books combined!

Baby Play (Bilingual Portuguese & English) (Barefoot Bilinguals) by Skye Silver

Our World: England by Sumana Seeboruth

Barefoot Baby-Proof: Baby's First Words by Christiane Engel

Feelings & Firsts: Won’t Go! by Sumana Seeboruth

Feelings & Firsts: Not Tired! by Sumana Seeboruth

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Recently I received an envelope from Barefoot Press. (I might have cackled, “MINE! MINE! ALL MINE!” I get emotional when my book dealer comes through for me with a fix. And what a fix it was.) There were hardcovers, board books, paperbacks and one of which is an “indestructible paper not board-board books.” I wanted to read then, but decided working probably was more important. I went home, curled up on the couch and started with the board books. The first was Baby Play (Bilingual […]

Groundbreaking

We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers Who Changed the World by Eva Chen

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I have wanted to read We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers Who Changed the World  by Eva Chen and illustrated by Sophie Diao for ages. And when I found the books “ID number” (or what is known as the ISBN number), I plugged it into the site where I find my online reader copies, and even though it has been out since January 2024, there was still a link. The description of the size of the book has it as a board book. And since I […]

That’s so Sister and Brother

G is for Gross by Greg Paprocki

My Sister Is Super! (A Hello!Lucky Book) by Hello!Lucky

My Brother Is the Best! (a Hello!lucky Book) by Sabrina Moyle and Eunice Moyle

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I will spare you the gross imagery of G is for Gross (except for that cover, sorry), but I am talking about it in case you have a very, very, very (did I say very?) warped sense of humor. Greg Paprocki’s board book is probably best for adults as we cover some of the grossest things in the alphabet. We get vomit, dirty diapers, “ew” (see birds above), and a fart. We even get toxic (for tricky X; toXic is how it is presented). There […]

Spoiler: Children are Friends, not Food.

I’m Hungry! by Elise Gravel

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Who has not had the “I’m Hungry!” issue? You eat a piece of pizza, but you are still hungry, and you want something else to eat. So, you eat the plate, the table, the house, the school, a mountain and finally you see the child reading the book you are in, and you try and eat them.  I mean, that happens to all of us, right? Well, it might not happen to all of us, but it happens to the monster in the board book […]

I was going to put all 10 titles under Books, but decided to pick one as felt like cheating

Mothman Baby! by Elias Barks

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Do you like cryptology? Do you like flap book board books? Do you like to read books? Do you like to read books to little children? Do you like to have little ones laugh at funny antics of babies and toddlers like them? Then you must have the Elias Barks series Hazy Dell Flap Book of baby monsters: Yeti Baby!, Mothman Baby!, Nessie Baby! Bigfoot Baby!, Vampire Baby!, Pumpkin Baby!; Alien Baby!, and finally Krampus Baby! (And when you are done with those you can […]



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