Doug Cenko – Cannonball Read 17

Even an Irish fairy could learn from this Viking Maid

Viking Strong by Doug Cenko

May 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Ingrid has everything a Viking wants, a best friend, kittens, a good home. But she would like to enter and win the Strongest Viking Contest. However, the thing stopping her? she can’t swim. She sinks. But she trains and when the day comes, she gets to prove how strong a strong Viking really is. Doug Cenko’s Viking Strong is funny. If you like kittens and cats, there are a lot of amusing parts with them. There are lots of dressing up our kittens, racing our […]

When One Book Closes, here are two others

Wild about Dads by Diana Murray

Little Monster Trucks GO! by Doug Cenko

I Will Dance by Nancy Bo Flood

December 16, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I cannot concentrate on long novels of late. When that happens (and occasionally it does), I turn to my picture books (hence why this is number 3 of a list of picture books today). No theme to these. Just three books I read, I liked and wanted to pass along to you. Wild about Dads by Diana Murray (author), Amber Alvarez (illustrations) While I am giving this a 5, it is a 4.5 mostly because I wanted more! MORE dads and the things they do! […]

My mom was a Barbie Doctor

My Mama is a Mechanic by Doug Cenko

June 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My Mama is a Mechanic is a “Women can be and do whatever they want” book for the toddler crowd. And sometimes they are those things because of a little help from the imagination of a child. The mom in this book wears many hats: surgeon, chemist and mechanic to name a few. What is going on is the Kid and their imagination see real-life situations and when these things are happening (she is a chemist because she cooks; a surgeon to only the highest […]

Sleepy time at the Zoo

June 29, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

c by John Hutton is a bed time story with not a lot of actual story. There are things the animals do (but not a lot to be honest) before the elephant and rhino (the “mother and father” figures without going to deeply into that part of the theme) decide everyone has to go to bed happens, but that is it. I was hoping, before they head off for sleepy time, the zookeeper (who they have woken up with the noise) might catch them and […]

My Papa is a Princess and So much More

June 25, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My Papa is a Princess is a slightly preaching book. After all, the cover is after all pink, with a stereotypical looking top-half of a male in a crown. At other times it is more straight forward and less in your face. They never say inside the book that Papa is a princess, but it is obvious due to the cover/title. But they mention when he is a hairdresser, firefighter, race car driver, etc. The book mostly is a dad having father and daughter time […]

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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.
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