Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR17
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • Suggest a Review
    • 2025 Registration
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

CBR 15 – Edibles

Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulson

Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulson

August 23, 2023 by RevGirlUtena 1 Comment

Garlic and the Vampire: Garlic is a sentient young garlic bulb. She lives in a village with other sentient vegetables, including her best friend, Carrot. They all farm and sell non-sentient vegetables at the farmer’s market with their caretaker, Witch Agnes. Everything is peaceful until they notice smoke coming from the tower of the abandoned old castle, and everyone is worried that a vampire has moved in! Since everyone believes that Garlic will naturally be immune to a vampire’s powers, she is nominated to travel […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Bree Paulson, cbr15 bingo, cbr15bingo, Children, Graphic Novel, sentient vegetables

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:51 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Bree Paulson, cbr15 bingo, cbr15bingo, Children, Graphic Novel, sentient vegetables ·
Rating:
· 1 Comment

The Velveteen Rabbit, Unanticipated Puppet Gore, and The Stages of Grief

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

March 25, 2023 by Flimflamingo 3 Comments

The thing about Grady Hendrix novels is that I read them without bothering to read the synopses anymore. It is enough for me to see his name on the cover when Quirk Books posts about an upcoming release or I’m on my Netgalley and a new title of his pops up on my available ARCs. To me, he is a known quantity. The books of his I haven’t read are ones that I just haven’t made time for. He is, to me, a guaranteed book […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Children, Death, exorcism, ghosts, grady hendrix, grief, Haunted, How to Sell a Haunted House, parents, puppets

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Children, Death, exorcism, ghosts, grady hendrix, grief, Haunted, How to Sell a Haunted House, parents, puppets ·
Rating:
· 3 Comments

Real villains

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

December 19, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

As of this writing/posting of the review for The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill I am only halfway through. I published before finishing as I had some ideas I wanted to put down as I was/am not completely sure why this book has critics excited. It is terribly slow, and the real action does not start to take place until the middle of the book. And then, when things are about to finally happen, the orphan that meets the Ogress is asleep with […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Children, family, Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Kelly Barnhill, monsters, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ogres/Ogress, Orphans & Foster Homes, siblings, Social Themes, Values & Virtues

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:611 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Children, family, Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Kelly Barnhill, monsters, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ogres/Ogress, Orphans & Foster Homes, siblings, Social Themes, Values & Virtues ·
· 0 Comments

We are the World

Our World: Italy by Francesca Di Marzo

Our World: Mexico by Cynthia Harmony

Our World: Brazil by Ana Siqueira

Our World: India by Meera Sriram

November 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Our World: Italy by Francesca Di Marzo, Our World: Mexico by Cynthia Harmony, Our World: Brazil by Ana Siqueira and Our World: India by Meera Sriram have two things in common. The first, they are awesome books and second, they are about the world aimed at the young reader/listener.  Some are already published, while others are coming within the next few months. The stories follow the culture, language and more in a small format. The authors and illustrators (while the illustrations are similar to each […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ana Matsusaki, Ana Siqueira, Brazil, Children, Claudia Navarro, Cynthia Harmony, Francesca Di Marzo, India, Italy, Meera Sriram, mexico, Naida Mazzenga, Neethi, travel, world

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:548 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ana Matsusaki, Ana Siqueira, Brazil, Children, Claudia Navarro, Cynthia Harmony, Francesca Di Marzo, India, Italy, Meera Sriram, mexico, Naida Mazzenga, Neethi, travel, world ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

D is not just for Dog any more.

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet by Amanda Noll

January 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

D Is for Drool: My Monster Alphabet is from the I Need My Monster series.  The lead singers are Amanda Noll and Shari Dash Greenspan with Howard McWilliam on illustrations. We the reader find out that T is for Tentacles, D is for Drool, C is for Claws, and each lyrical letter gets its own monster worded page. Or could share the page but gets its own spot as the parade of monsters walk by to help the young child of the book fall asleep. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Alphabet, Amanda Noll, Children, Howard McWilliam, I Need My Monster, monsters, Shari Dash Greenspan, sleep

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Alphabet, Amanda Noll, Children, Howard McWilliam, I Need My Monster, monsters, Shari Dash Greenspan, sleep ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

I can see a better time When all our dreams come true

The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi

December 14, 2021 by esme 2 Comments

Amazingly, I only discovered that I could download graphic novels to my library app a few weeks ago, and my son and I have been tearing through some pretty good ones since then. He mentioned that they read the first book in the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi, The Stonekeeper, at school, so we sought the second one. Thus, I went into reading this book with an 8 year old’s synopsis of the first book. Briefly, Emily has inherited a stone amulet that confers power, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, Children, family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi

esme's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, Children, family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi ·
Rating:
· 2 Comments
  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 13
  • Next Page »


Recent Comments

  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission: Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2025 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in