Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Be the grandfather

My Grandfather's Song by Phùng Nguyên Quang,

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cbr15bingo Guide: We must be the guides for the next generations to keep the conservation of our world happening. My Grandfather’s Song at first seemed like it was going in one direction, but it does a slight turn. The beginning seems more of how nature is wild and therefore for us to learn from, but the turn comes when the narrator shows us how everything is connected and respect is given to the wild. We see all this with how the narrator grows. You will […]

The next car I name is going to be Priscilla Queen of the Desert

A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers

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 cbr15bingo Bodies, Bodies: The car has bodies in it & the cars body holds them. Growing up my parents probably named more than a vehicle or two. We never had anything as solid as Bob (named by our young narrator) but I remember a few such as The Banana Boat (it was a 1972 light yellow Dodge Monaco) and The Roadrunner (it had roadrunner mud flaps), but we knew a good vehicle needed the love that the family shows their car in the picture book […]

A name by other other

Say My Name by Joanna Ho

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cbr15bingo Picture This:  I like these images. There are six people who are from different areas of the world. And all of them have one thing in common. They have a name. Now, that is not unusual, but what is unusual in Say My Name is how we learn of these names. Each one of their names is special in its own way. And each of the children tells us why their name is special, how it is connected to their people’s history, culture and what […]

Rising above

Follow the Flyway: The Marvel of Bird Migration. by Sarah Nelson

Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman by Emma Carlson Bene

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cbr15bingo Take Flight: The first book has birds literally migrating and the second a young girl flies above her “lot in life” I was in the mood for something different the other day and I found a science and history selection in the picture book format. There is a lot going on, therefore one future publication (though I did have a physical reader copy) and one current book will need to have multiple reads. August 2023 is a busy month for books. And one of […]

Folk art and an artist

A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis by Kathy Stinson

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 cbr15bingo North America: Canada is in North America  Who is Maud Lewis? I had no idea until I found A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis. Kathy Stinson’s picture book (currently available) is a love story to a woman who overcame times of prejudices, and a debilitating  case of rheumatoid arthritis. As a young woman, her parents death and brother selling their home meant she had to move in with an aunt. But she was being treated as a child. Through a […]

Coming to America

 It'll Be Irie: Staying True to Yourself by Alejandra Barajas

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cbr15bingo On the Road: a young boy immigrates to America I had decided that I did not want to read It’ll Be Irie: Staying True to Yourself by Alejandra Barajas for no other reason than I had read a lot of being yourself type of books and one more was going to be one too many. I then found a physical reader copy and since I prefer reading books that way, I thought I would give it a shot. I am glad I waited for it […]



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