Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My love/hate relationship with surprises and how it lead me to finding a book to recommend

Dear Duck, Please Come! by Sarah MacKenzie

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I have a “Love/Hate” relationship with surprises. Especially if I expected to read something and something else pops up entirely!  I was going to read Because Barbara: Barbara Cooney Paints Her World  by Sarah Mackenzie and illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen, but when I clicked on the button to do so, Dear Duck, Please Come! by Sarah MacKenzie and illustrated by Charles  Santoso came up instead. So, me being me, I took it as a sign to read it. And actually, I’m glad I did. […]

Family Dynamics

Our Wish for You: A Story About Open Adoption by Dano Moreno

Other Words for Nonno by Dave Cameron

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September 2023 had two interesting books come out. Of course, it had more than that, so I should say that 2023 had a lot of books come out and September 2023 had two of those that I read in 2024. They were found as I was cleaning up my online reader copies, which is going to take me well into 2024 to even dent, while I find new 2024s and will need to balance the two. However, I am glad I took the time to […]

Picture books are Fun

Indigo Dreaming by Dinah Johnson

Not Quite Narwhal and Friends: Weather Together by Jessie Sima

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  cbr15bingo Africa: Indigo dreaming has the African connection I enjoy doing picture book reviews and doing a round-up review of a few titles at once. The thing with picture books is that they are short. So, they are easy to read. And yet, they can be packed from cover to cover with amazing goodies. Just sometimes that does not lend itself to a regulation review word count. The below titles are perfect for most people, yet different enough and varied in age ranges that […]

The universal language of unconditional love

Quiet Time with My Seeya by Dinalie Dabarera

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CBR15Passport country When you see a title like, Quiet Time with My Seeya (or at least me), I assume that you will get an outlined story. Meaning: Step one: Grandparent is coming. Or child goes to grandparent. Step two: Child is bored, and grandparent makes magic. Or the child knows grandparent makes magic. Step three: They have lots of fun, maybe learning something new, but always a happy generational story.   There is nothing wrong with this story format. It is a good format and I like […]

All kinds of words

A Way with Words by Stacy Burch

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The main theme of this picture book is words. Or lack thereof. And therefore, it is also about communication. We follow Little Sam as they never speak words, but of course, that does not mean they cannot say many things. And of course, since she is different, people figure she does not have much to say, or really anything important to say. Stacy Burch has a multiple layered story with A Way with Words. It can be adapted to fit your specific need. This book […]

Do I speak Fish? I speak “little kids” and in this case, it is the same thing.

Do You Speak Fish? by DJ Corchin

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Do You Speak Fish? is a book about communication. The best way to describe this is, when I posted the picture on my Facebook page, my sister replied, “No, but I speak 24.” (We call her sons/my nephews by their ages on social media). And that is true. Trying to understand him without knowing his language can be tough. He is autistic and deaf in one ear. This little guy (he’s under 6 feet, but I still see that not five-pound baby) speaks his own […]



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