Erin Entrada Kelly – Cannonball Read 17

Good book, but geared for a younger audience

Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

May 30, 2022 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

“That’s the problem. People don’t want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.” Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly is a book about friendship and belonging. It is told from 4 different perspectives… Virgil Salinas – Shy, kindhearted boy. He feels out of place in his loud, boisterous family. Valencia Somerset – Brave, smart, deaf, and secretly lonely. She loves everything about nature and the natural world. Kaori Tanaka – Self-proclaimed psychic (she is 11 years old, and no religious […]

“Hello, Peppina”

Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly

February 16, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey caught my eye in an email sent around by the publisher rep. I was wondering why: was it the simple cover? The blue and green combination of colors that was fresh and soft? Was it that hint of yellow of the shirt or the cat peeking out from the cover? Or was it the fact the name Rainey was catching my eye as I have a cousin whose last name is Rainey? Whatever was drawing me to Erin Entrada Kelly’s book […]

People don’t want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.

August 3, 2018 by melanir Leave a Comment

In my ongoing quest to read all the Newbery Award Winners, I decided to read the most recent addition to the list. Hello, Universe won the Newbery Award in 2018, and boy am I under the impression that 2017 was a bad year for children’s books. It’s not a bad book, per se, it’s just not great in the way I’ve come to expect Newbery winners to be. It was a very fast read, even for a children’s novel, and it contained about a short […]

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