Mika Song – Cannonball Read 17

Pizza, outdoors and friends

Pizza My Heart (Norma and Belly, #3 by Mika Song

Expedition Backyard by Rosemary Mosco

September 29, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A slice of pizza or an adventure with a lion? Which do you prefer? Well, if you like to read, you do not have to choose! You can pick up either of the early-to-mid-readers for you and your child/children. Both books are aimed at least ages five and up to be read to, but at least six and up could start reading solo (and/or assistance). Pizza My Heart (Norma and Belly, #3) by Mika Song is a series that is still cute, but for the adult […]

Hawaiian culture and nonbinary identities

Ho’onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale

June 17, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Ho’onani: Hula Warrior is and is not hard to talk about. But after you say a young dancer finds her place in her society and the male hula troupe at school by being herself, you have said it all. I mean you can say how her family (but not her sister) supports her choice of being nāhū (not wahine (female) or kane or kāne (I have found both spellings) (male) but in between) and how that came about, but that takes away from the story […]

Schooling the class

Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley

June 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Agatha May really likes the Anglerfish, and we learn about that in Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley. Now, I like the Anglerfish but in mid-December 2022 you can find a gal who really likes them. Agatha is a kid who has trouble sitting still in class. Their fingers are messy. They decide to feed when it is not lunch time and they are afraid that when the class picks sea creatures for their school project, hers will be […]

Squirrels and pie oh my!

Apple of My Pie: Norma and Belly by Mika Song

April 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Norma and Belly V01 Donut Feed the Squirrels has a second installment with Apple of My Pie. Ad when I finally got my hands on this early/easy reader I was most happy as the first book was a tasty treat. (Now I need wait until August 2022 for Pizza My Heart). Mika Song’s cute squirrels are back and ready for adventure. Pop the Squirrel accidently gets squirreled-napped as he falls into the truck that goes to the apple farm. It is up to Norma, Belly […]

Donut let the squirrels (or birds) eat your doughnuts

Donut Feed the Squirrels by Mika Song

Unlikely Friends by Norm Feuti

October 9, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am going to review Donut Feed the Squirrels by Mika Song and Unlikely Friends by Norm Feuti because they are both short, for the 5 to 8 reading crew and they both have donuts in them. Even though the squirrels do steal the donuts and make a serious mess of things in Donut Feed the Squirrels, this was a funny book. Two squirrels get into all sorts of trouble trying to make a snack of the best smelling donuts. The humans love it, so […]

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