Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Become booked

Gray by Laura Dockrill

Gwendolyn and the Light: A Picture Book by Susan Yoon

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Picture books are fun, but are hard books to write reviews about. There are usually only a few hundred words (at best) and the stories short enough that to give a description of things means you told the whole book. Recently I found two books that I enjoyed, but I am not saying, “OMG BEST BOOKS EVER” about. They are cozy, their audiences are people who like a softer toned, but strong read. Please read on to learn more about them…  The picture book Gray […]

Finding yourself

A Sky of Paper Stars by Susie Yi

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A Sky of Paper Stars by Susie Yi is probably more of a 3.5 than a pure 4 rating as there were a few bumps for me. However, I enjoyed seeing Korean culture, some of it I knew and other aspects new. My unscientific opinion is that probably Korean culture is not known well by the aimed age reader (a stronger 8 to 12). My experience with Asian based characters seems to lean towards Chinese first, with Japanese second, then the people of Taiwan and […]

Me, my sis and her car

K's Car Can Go Anywhere!: A Graphic Novel by Jonathan Tune

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K’s Car Can Go Anywhere!: A Graphic Novel by Jonathan Tune and Eleanor Doughty is an easier graphic novel read due out in October of 2024. I also read it via an online reader copy and not a physical reader copy, therefore, I think any bumps I had was due to the fact I was reading via screen and not the book in my hands. However, while I might read it again via that reader’s copy, I do not see myself finding a finished copy. […]

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The Scariest Story You’ve Ever Heard by Ron Keres

It's Pride, Baby! by Allen R. Wells

Not a Smiley Guy by Dia Valle

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Picture Book time! They are fun! They are scary! They are full of pride! And one of each is below.  First with have The Scariest Story You’ve Ever Heard by Ron Keres and illustrations (what they are) by Arthur Lin. Read via an online reader copy, though available, this book has mostly all black pages. The narrator says this is so because it is just too scary to see! Two brothers (or so the narrator says), let their imagination run wild when they start hearing […]

Licking the wind

The Boy Who Loves to Lick the Wind by Finoa Carswell

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I love having a “book dealer” or aka the publishers who like to send me little gifts of books that I get to read then tell people about. One of these recent gifts was The Boy Who Loves to Lick the Wind by Finoa Carswell and illustrated by Yu Rong. And while I expected more actual wind licking (or what would pass as wind licking), what we do get is a fun and interesting story that includes a mixture of modern and classical tones to […]

A word by any other name would still be reindeer

Ánh's New Word: A Story about Learning a New Language by Hanh Bui

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I thought at first  that  Ánh’s New Word: A Story about Learning a New Language would be more about the learning of English as a second language than what it was. Now, yes, it is about learning English, but it is also about learning how to be brave, how to have the courage to try and the idea of family being there for you. Anh is a young child who moved to the US from Vietnam and is living in a relocation camp with her […]



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