Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Pride and Vanity

The Fate of Fausto: A Painted Fable by Oliver Jeffers

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After finishing the picture book, The Fate of Fausto: A Painted Fable by Oliver Jeffers, my thought was that this is not really for the picture book crowd. It is a very deep, impassioned story about a man who had everything but wanted more. He wants to own everything. And when he finds something that he could not have (a tree, mountain, the ocean), he would force that something to become owned by him. When he tries it with the ocean, you can imagine the disastrous results. […]

A boy and a penguin

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

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All of us are lonely and unsure in friendships and relationships, but still friendships happen in their own weird, imperfect ways. Such is the tale of Lost and Found. A boy discovers a penguin and the penguin is sad. The boy wants to make the penguin happy, but no matter what he does the penguin is sad. The boy then decides that the penguin is homesick and they set out together on a perilous journey to get to the south pole. There, the boy leaves […]

Books about books

Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson

A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

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A Child of Books By Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston   This isn’t just a picture book.  It’s a work of art! There is so much packed into these few pages.  The story is simple. A child of books (real or imagined, we don’t quite know, and it doesn’t really matter) is introducing a boy to her world.  I could definitely see this being made into a short film, but the problem with that would be people constantly pausing to read what was on the […]



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