Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Love Letters are not just for sweethearts

Dear Earth by Isabel Otter

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CBR15Passport, from other country (author and illustrators are both currently living in the UK and grew up one in the UK and one in the Seychelles Islands) There are several books about environmental and the impact we have on it. This picture book by Isabel Otter takes that idea and has a young girl write a love letter to the  Dear Earth allowing us to see both the impact, and things we can do to help. It is about how Tessa (the young girl) loves […]

An elephant never forgets. Until she does

Never Forget Eleanor by Jason June

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CBR15Passport new to me author (though I had heard the name Jason June, I realized, I have never actually read them!)   Jason June you are a mean, person! How could you pull on my heartstrings with your lovely story of a grandmother elephant and her grandson elephant going through a difficult situation? Why did you make me cry? Of course, you Loren Long, I blame, too!  Those sweet, illustrations of adorable elephant ears and big eyes looking up at his grandmother while they do […]

Going from “talk the whiskers off a catfish” to silent as a mouse

Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington

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I did it again. I was emailed “the book is here, please pick it up” and I said, “What book?” “Why this book? How did it get on my radar? Who was I when I thought this sounded interesting? When was this request done?  Where was I sitting when I thought to request?” Okay, not that one. But the other questions (maybe) happened. But regardless of the who, what, when, where, why and how of it all, I am glad I did request Catching a […]

Mangonificent tale

Farah Loves Mangos by Sarthak Sinha

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CBR15Passport Different Countries (author is from India & his travels have taken him “from the tropical rainforests to the high Himalayas where he makes children’s books from his tiny studio.”) This book, Farah Loves Mangos, has multiple feelings, but in the end, it becomes a little bittersweet. At first it seems like a lovely story of a young girl, her mangos, and her grandfather. I assumed we would have a symbolism story where the mango tree represents the grandfather, or how the tree is the […]

Don’t pick your nose, pick a book

Got Your Nose! by Alan Katz

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Let’s get it out of the way: If I had to pick a nose (book), I would pick this one. I can’t catch my nose, it’s too runny. I hope I don’t blow this review. Alan Katz did similar and a few more jokes inside the pages of Got Your Nose! The “you’re never too old for silly fun” is the center of the tale. When Becky’s grandfather Max makes a surprise visit, they sing and play music and end up on a surprise adventure: […]

A boy and his crane

Love Made Me More by Colleen Rowan Kosinski

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A boy’s grandmother shows him how to make an origami crane. Then, the boy and that colorful crane become very good friends after that. All of this is told to us by the voice of the Crane. It tells us all the adventures the two of them have in Love Made Me More. Colleen Rowan Kosinski’s story allows us into the mind of a favorite toy. The boy of the story does all sorts of things with the paper Crane and finally starts to outgrow the […]



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