Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Lighter New Year Celebration

Friends Are Friends, Forever by Dane Liu

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Gong hei fat choy! Sun Leen Fai Lo! Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy New Year!  It is 2022 and the Year of the Water Tiger. Most January and sometimes even February babies can be born on a cusp of a year, like I was. Therefore, since I enjoy celebrating, I use both Year of the Tiger and Year of the Rabbit as “My Years.” And this year is my “official” Lunar Year and 2023 my “official” Western Year! But regardless of the year, I love […]

Something is a buzz with Pea and Bee

Pea, Bee, & Jay V04 Farm Feud by Brian “Smitty” Smith

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Farm Feud is the fourth book in the Pea, Bee, & Jay series, Pea, Bee, & Jay by Brian “Smitty” Smith created a series about a pea, named Pea, a bee who is a Queen Bee, named Bee and, a blue jay named Jay. They are all young kids mentally; Pea lives in his pod with his mother and grandfather. Jay is by themselves, and Bee runs her hive. They live on the Farm with other fruits, vegetables, farm and local critters, and have adventures. […]

When Nimbus met Kelp

Perfectly Pegasus by Jessie Sima

Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima

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I was browsing a site we have and found a reader copy of Perfectly Pegasus (due late March/early April 2022). When looking up their other words (as the Pegasus Nimbus looked familiar) I saw several books by Jessie Sima I had read. And one was Not Quite Narwhal. I might have reviewed Narwhal before, but here we go again. The story of both Pegasus and Narwhal is simple: an animal (a Pegasus and what later learns they are a Unicorn) have an issue and they […]

Yo’ Ho Hum and a bottle of Root Beer at the bottom of the ocean

The Aquanaut: A Graphic Novel by Dan Santat

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The Aquanaut: A Graphic Novel is a cute story with a theme about environmentalism, animal conservation and family. The story is when a handful of sea creatures find a surprise at the bottom of the ocean, it leads them on an adventure with a young girl and her uncle. A Sea-World like park is filled with the research and animals found by Sophia’s father (lost at sea several years ago) and her uncle. A handful of critters from the actual ocean, have banded together to […]

I like the illustrations

The Midnight Club by Shane Goth

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The Midnight Club is a lovely book. For someone other than me. The concept of Shane Goth’s picture book is cute, but something did not click for me. This is a story of two sisters and the mischief they get in at midnight while they sneak around the house. They try on clothes of their mother, eat their fathers’ jellybeans, play with the cat, and just wander about the house without a care (or parent) in the world. They mention the two walk past their […]

A Perfect Book

The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty

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Most of us have heard of Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies), but did you know she has a sister who writes perfect YA and middle-grade novels? You haven’t? Well, I’m not surprised, because no one I’ve talked to has ever read any of Jaclyn Moriarty’s Australian school YA novels (The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry For Celia, etc) or her fantasy novels (The Colors of Madeline series and others). But I am here as a lone voice in the book wilderness, having just read another […]



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