Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You got kids? This book gots kids.

Stay My Baby by Lana Button

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This is a bouncy, rhyming, totally a first book for baby board book. Stay My Baby (due mid-September 2023) is about how a care giver (parent, grandparent, etc.) feels about this new bundle of joy that has come into their lives, or the toddler who is growing quickly. A book that works for first to fourth birthday gifts, but as it aimed towards the fact that the child is young and has big eyes that speak, a mouth that makes sounds, tiny feet that are […]

Spoiler: Children are Friends, not Food.

I’m Hungry! by Elise Gravel

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Who has not had the “I’m Hungry!” issue? You eat a piece of pizza, but you are still hungry, and you want something else to eat. So, you eat the plate, the table, the house, the school, a mountain and finally you see the child reading the book you are in, and you try and eat them.  I mean, that happens to all of us, right? Well, it might not happen to all of us, but it happens to the monster in the board book […]

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One Sweet Song by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

American Desi by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

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CBR15Passport author   The funny thing is, “sweet” does not always do it for me (unless it is a donut or chocolate). However, once in awhile a book that is sweet gets me in the feels. That is because it is sweet but not overly, sickening sweet (like three York peppermint patties and a mug of hot chocolate). And One Sweet Song falls in the former sweet category. Rhyming text takes us through a neighborhood when one person, while sitting on a balcony, plays a […]

The other 99%

The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler

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CBR15Passport, Different genres (science and mindfulness) While the rhyming of the text is good for kids in The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, The Big Ways We’re the Same, it was a smidgen too much for this adult (even though I enjoyed it, I wished it was more straight forward). However, that lightness allows for Linsey Davis and Michael Tyler to give the reader not only a poem, but a story that includes facts about how we are different but […]

An elephant never forgets. Until she does

Never Forget Eleanor by Jason June

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CBR15Passport new to me author (though I had heard the name Jason June, I realized, I have never actually read them!)   Jason June you are a mean, person! How could you pull on my heartstrings with your lovely story of a grandmother elephant and her grandson elephant going through a difficult situation? Why did you make me cry? Of course, you Loren Long, I blame, too!  Those sweet, illustrations of adorable elephant ears and big eyes looking up at his grandmother while they do […]

Don’t overlook this book

No Reading Allowed: The Worst Read-Aloud Book Ever by Raj Haldar

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Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter, (adding Bryce Gladfelter) came back together in 2020 to make another LOL read. And though it might not be as easy to read, or fun, as P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever (to me at least), No Reading Allowed: The Worst Read-Aloud Book Ever has plenty of chuckles and is good. I think the main issue is that there are homonyms and sound-alikes, but you need to know the meaning of some words to make the joke […]



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