Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The year 2025 is going to be busy with fun new books

The Three-Year Tumble: Based on a Korean Folktale by Dayeon Auh

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The Three-Year Tumble: Based on a Korean Folktale by Dayeon Auh and translated by Tim Mohr was read via an online reader copy as it is not due until mid-late March 2025. And I was unaware of this until after I read it and really liked it. But it is worth the wait. Auh’s story is a clever story about how we see things and how our attitude can shape that. The story follows a grandfather who must go over a mountain to get to […]

Coffee, unicorns and music

Shy Steve by Katerina Spaeth

Giddy Up, Unicorn! by Dani Gomez

Eloísa's Musical Window by Margarita Engle

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Picture books all around me. How many can I read? Well, I try to read all of them, but of course, it’s impossible. So, I do the best I humanly can to make sure I find the right one(s) for me. Then, I narrow it down to the ones I want to review. That is not as easy as it sounds. But I was able to find a few for this review. All were read via online reader copies. We can start with Shy Steve […]

An umbrella of sadness

Under Anna's Umbrella by Amanda Driscoll

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Under Anna’s Umbrella written by Amanda Driscoll and illustrated by Luisa Uribe (and due mid/late April 2025) is actually a nice story about grief. It is set up to allow you to adapt it to your own personal needs. We see how Anna is unable to face the death of someone in her family (I am assuming a father as there isn’t one during the course of the book, but there is a photograph of a man at the end of the book) but as […]

Ironheart: the other metal superhero

Marvel-Verse: Ironheart by Eve L. Ewing and various

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Another book in the Marvel-Verse graphic novel series I found is Marvel-Verse: Ironheart by Eve L. Ewing, Brian Michael Bendis, Kevin Libranda, Luciano Vecchio, Marco Rudy, Nico Leon and a few others. I hadn’t planned on writing another Marvel review (even though I have read two of the baddies,  Marvel-Verse: Kang and Marvel-Verse: Kraven the Hunter, plus two of the Guardians of the Galaxy comics: Marvel-Verse: Rocket & Groot and Marvel-Verse: Guardians of the Galaxy. But honestly, I was not as impressed with them as I had […]

Leaping and leaping!

We Leap Together by Christopher Silas Neal

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, picture books are great for that “I need to read but I don’t want something too long or heavy. And I can still say, “I read a book!” feeling. We Leap Together by Christopher Silas Neal (due April 2025; read via an online reader copy) is one of those quickies. It is about how the whales and humans are a lot alike when it comes to many things, but mostly caring for a young one.  I […]

Celebrating and loss

Popi's All Souls Song by C.K. Malone

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Popi’s All Souls Song by C.K. Malone and illustrated by Shelly Swann is due mid September 2024. I was able to find an online reader copy and I am curious about the final product. I think reading online made me “miss” some important pieces of the story. There is a small bump near the end that did not flow for me. However, overall it is an interesting story that takes a familiar topic (the death of a loved one) and handles it with love, care […]



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