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Picture books are Fun

Indigo Dreaming by Dinah Johnson

Not Quite Narwhal and Friends: Weather Together by Jessie Sima

July 5, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

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 […]

More than a broken heart

The Faint f Heart by Kerilynn Wilson

April 20, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Due to a few bumps in the story arc of The Faint f Heart, but particularly due to the artwork, this book is a 4.5 (rounded up to 5). This is a love story to emotions and feelings. It has realistic, science-fiction and fantasy vibes but is all too likely to happen scenario, or at least is within reason. When you play with the heart, emotions happen, and Kerilynn Wilson explores what happens when people find a way to stop feeling those emotions. June […]

Feelings? Yes, we have those

The Noise Inside Boys: A Story about Big Feelings by Pete Oswald

April 5, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The story within the pages (I am assuming pages, as I read this via an online reader copy) of The Noise Inside Boys: A Story about Big Feelings has been done before. Pete Oswald talks about how we have big feelings and those are legitimate feelings. We follow the youngest of three brothers through the ups and downs of the events that give him his feelings. And see how one can deal with them. It is the illustrations of Oswald that really made things fresh. […]

“Vulnerability is not oversharing, it’s sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown

November 7, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Mind-Altering Cannonball Read Bingo: Heart I was already a big Brene Brown fan before I opened this book, so I knew to steel myself for something that was going to teach me, challenge me, and break my brain a little bit. Guess what? That’s exactly what happened! This is not something to read cover to cover but is a manual for understanding and navigating emotions. It’s a good read, great even, but it took me over four months to read by design; […]

Feelings are hard; the least we can do is give kids the words to describe them.

Star Wars Search Your Feelings, Galactic Basic Edition by Calliope Class & Caitlin Kennedy

What to Do When You're Feeling Blue by Andi Cann

The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

July 21, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

When I taught preschool, we did a lot of lessons on emotions. I’m not sure there was anything we did over the course of the whole school year that didn’t somehow connect to emotions, since teaching kids how to deal with their own feelings and participate in a community where everybody else also had feelings was our overreaching goal, in the end. We may have told parents we were teaching their kids the colors of the rainbow, but you best believe there were some lessons […]

2 Misses, and One Five Star Hit

Lulu Faces Loss & Finds Encouragement by Danica Thurber

Forever in Our Hearts by Kristina Andrade

Home in Heaven by Stefan Waidelich

July 21, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

I don’t know about all you, my fellow Cannonballers, but I’m the go-to book person in most of my circles. I would be very upset if this were not true, in fact. Especially when it comes to picture books, which are what I’m both most educated in and most passionate about. But this means, that a lot of times I get asked about “What are good books about X hard thing?” and – while I almost always have a few essential recommendations for every given […]

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.

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