Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Friendship can stink….

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

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Friendship slot for cbr12bingo done Skunk and Badger (book one of a planned at least trilogy) are The Really Odd Couple. I have no doubt that the others are going to keep this interesting new Buddy Series on its toes! Amy Timberlake created a book that has an old school/old world feeling to it. I thought of Frog and Toad and Wind in the Willows while reading it. The story behind getting my copy of this due in September book, is a slightly odd one. […]

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Zen Happiness by Jon J. Muth

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My Happy choice for cbr12bingo,The art makes me happy. The sayings are not my personal tastes but will be perfect for the right reader. They are supposed to show that there is happy out there. This makes Zen Happiness a great hostess gift, graduation gift (for all ages) and just a nice book to have in your collection for a pick-me-up from time-to-time. As I said, the art of Jon J. Muth makes me happy. Even his darker colored, shadowy images are happy. Plus, I […]

The other Goliath

Goliath: The Boy Who Was Different by Ximo Abadía

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Red cbr12bingo I said!  Goliath: The Boy Who Was Different by Ximo Abadía seems like it might be a somber and sad story, but turns out it is really a feel good story about just being you. Other than being very large, not looking like everyone else, Goliath seems like a normal boy. While Abadia does not dig deep into the differences, they show how being different affects Goliath, who is telling their own story. We have seen this story before, but it is fresh […]

Fight with all your might that un-friend, the Night

Fight the Night by Tomie dePaol

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The cbr12bingo No Money! slot is the easiest one for me. Reader copies are scattered all over my workspace! It’s a miracle I can get anything done. And one freebie was this classic Tomie dePaola picture book. Fight the Night is an early Tomie dePaola work released back in February for today’s fan. While you know it is dePaola, the art is less polish than his later work. This is because the book is created in an “old school” art format with actually very little […]

Be Proud of You

The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad

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For my  cbr12bingo UnCannon slot I hope this review shows how much I loved and respect this book. I think this is a book all of us should read. It is not just a picture book, it is a snapshot into a young girls world. A special time in her life. A piece of a culture. The Proudest Blue has been on several reading lists over the last year and is currently popular due to the fact the author, Ibtihaj Muhammad is known for being the […]

Put a little color in your dreams

The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

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(cbr12bingo Orange) One of the advantages of working in a bookstore is that I can plug in the word orange into our in house system and have several titles come up. Since I was trying to keep my color blocks in the picture book genre, The Big Orange Splot was a great choice. I have never been a big fan of Daniel Manus Pinkwater, but know why people like him He is nuts. And I say that with love. Pinkwater just lets us be us. […]



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