Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My mummy has fleas, she got them from meeeeee!

Mummy & Me: A Monster's Tale by Danesh Mohiuddin

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The Mummy & Me: A Monster’s Tale by Danesh Mohiuddin is the typical child being a child and trying to be a good child, but well, you know things happen, but with not so typical characters, story. Mummy’s love their children but sometimes it is tiring. Even when they do their best, like using their indoor howls (or so they think). But dancing is fun. Slurping lunch is a delight. And getting ready for bed when the sun starts to shine is divine! And in […]

War makes Hell look cozy

The Horizon Volume One by jh

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I was cleaning up old online reader copy links the other day and I said, “Self, let’s try The Horizon Volume one.” So, I did (though it is currently available).  Of course, I did not realize it was volume one (I have a habit of doing that) and just thought it was around 300 pages of a dystopian artistic graphic novel. And it was. Only the ending has a cliffhanger ending that made me say, “WHAT THE FLAMING MONKEY TOOTS??”  How did that happen? I […]

Luke endangered my Kindle.

An Unlikely Match for the Governess by Lauri Robinson

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When Luke’s brother threatens to seize custody of his nieces, he and their governess Aislinn decide to get married to provide a more secure home for them – which is only complicated by their attraction to each other. It is so incredibly frustrating when you are going along reading a perfectly good book populated by perfectly good characters acting out a perfectly good plot – and then one of the characters does something so incredibly stupid and, worse, out of character, that it completely tanks your […]

My Joanna Ho kick

One Day by Joanna Ho

On the Tip of a Wave: How Ai Weiwei's Art Is Changing the Tide? by Joanna Ho

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If you know picture books and diverse picture books, you probably know Eyes That Kiss in the Corners and Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho. But do you know Say My Name or Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma? Or what about One Day or  On the Tip of a Wave: How Ai Weiwei’s Art Is Changing the Tide? I have had the pleasure of reading them all (I was on a Joanna Ho kick recently, though have not […]

Happy Birthday, Charlotte’s Web

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

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Cbr15bingo Hold Steady (old favorite), bingo Did you know that today, October 15, is the birthday of Charlotte’s Web? It’s also my birthday but Charlotte is older than I am, having been introduced to the world on this day in 1952. This is such a beautiful story of friendship. Reading it again, probably about 50 years after I first read it, is like a warm hug. The story of the friendships of Wilbur, Fern, and Charlotte is timeless and welcome in a world that often […]

Enough really is Enough

Nat Enough by Maria Scrivan

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So this review is out of my comfort zone. While on a weekend getaway I wandered into a bookstore and got several book recommendations, including  Maria Scrivan’s Nat Enough.  I asked about graphic novels and the owner steered  me into the children’s section. I haven’t read any books directed at kids recently besides Harry Potter and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. It was a fun read, and seems unlikely to cause any parents to get into an uproar. Natalie is starting middle school. She is […]



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