Joe Cepeda – Cannonball Read 17

I’m still not going camping, but I’ll read about it

The Best Worst Camp Out Ever by Joe Cepeda

October 9, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Every so often I still find an older online reader copy in my saved links. And The Best Worst Camp Out Ever by Joe Cepeda (from late April/early May 2024) is one of them. I honestly do not think I would have liked this book if I had not found (again) and read it on a day in October 2025. I was in the right place and it was the right time for it. Summer was ending, fall was bursting out (minus good color for […]

Drum solo please

Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! by E. Charlton-Trujillo and Pat Zietlow Miller

June 13, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! Or at least, Lupe Lopez thinks she does. Rules. And is a rock star. But when she has her first day of kindergarten, she has the distinction of being the first kindergarten to get in trouble on the first day of school. After all, her teacher does not appreciate that Lupe drums on everything: the desks, chairs, lunch trays…. And Lupe does not appreciate the rules the teacher has given her. Especially the one about losing her drumsticks if she […]

How much hay can a farmer hay if a farmer… waaaaiiit they CAN HAY!

Hey, Hey, Hay!: A Tale of Bales and the Machines That Make Them by Christy Mihaly

June 22, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If you have not guessed, I have been reading a lot of picture books, but not writing reviews. (What do you do with a reviewer like Raven? Just wait, she’ll get there eventually….) And one book I finally got to was Hey, Hey, Hay!: A Tale of Bales and the Machines That Make Them by Christy Mihaly. This is a cute story about how you make the hay. Or in other words, how one kids family bales the hay to be stored for winter. The fun […]

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