Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sequel to Watership Down Does Not Quite Live Up to First Book

Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams

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This was an enjoyable collection of short stories about the rabbits of Watership Down. We get to read about what they were up to before the end of the first book which caused me no end of tears. I honestly have to say that reading about  El-ahrairah in the first story was fine, but after that I found myself getting bored. The book didn’t pick up for me until we were following Hazel, Fiver, and the others who were setting into Watership Down. I do think […]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

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[1/2 CANNONBALL!!!] [BINGO 4 & BINGO 5] After a steady stretch of some seriously challenging reading, I decided that to fill my final CBR10 Bingo square for “The Book Was Better,” I’d read something cheerful and pleasant. So, Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back by PL Travers it was! They were a perfect choice. Since I had only ever seen the Julie Andrews movie from 1964, and had never read any of the books in the series, this seemed a perfect opportunity to read the source material before Mary Poppins Returns comes out […]

Simply Adorable

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A big thank-you to crystalclear for suggesting this book both on CBR and in person (by means of shoving the audio book case at me in a parking lot). I toted it around in my car for about a week before reading her review, and I’m glad I took the few hours to listen to this on my commute. The book is absolutely adorable. Kenny is a young rabbit living in a little farming village, and like most children’s book characters, he doesn’t fit in. […]

Charming manga for the tween set

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Cardcaptor Sakura is a Japanese comic, commonly called manga, that is created by an all female team who style themselves as CLAMP.  Fourth grader Sakura Kinomoto found an old book in her dad’s library, when she opened it a deck of cards flew out and disappeared.  The cards were created by the magician Clow Reed and are colloquially called the Clow cards.  Each card represents a different power, such as the four elements but also things like flying and illusion.  Only someone with magical ability has […]

Narwhal and Jellyfish have delightful adventures – CBR10 Bingo: Award Winner

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My 6 year old daughter LOVES narwhals and was thrilled when Grandma gave her Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea. It is a Will Eisner award winning graphic novel and marks off the “Award Winner” bingo square!  The book is made of three stories in which a happy go lucky narwhal and a no nonsense jellyfish learn about friendship, working together, and the power of imagination. One day a narwhal finds itself in strange waters and encounters a creature it has never seen before, a jellyfish.  The […]

Barkonauts are the best!

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Greg Van Eekhout is now one of my favorite authors thanks to his Daniel Blackland series, starting with California Bones.  In it he created a fascinating magic system called osteomancy, where one gets magical properties through consuming the remains of magical creatures.  Magical creatures also being fellow spell casters.  Not exactly fit for the tween and under set.  However, Greg has just had Voyage of the Dogs come out and it is all ages. If you know a child that loves dogs and thinks outer space […]



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