Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Getting your kitten on

Sue & Tai-chan volume one by Kanata Konami

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Sue & Tai-chan volume one is a cute story. You like it or you don’t. Really there is not an in-between for it. If you want to read about the everyday lives of two cats (Sue, and older cat wanting to just sleep and eat quietly. Tai-chan, a young kitten ready and loading for bear, trouble, mischief, shenanigans, eating, sleeping, chaos, and repeat), then Kanata Konami’s series is the graphic novel/manga series you need. Because if you are looking for action, there is not really […]

Good thing I’m not allergic to books, but if I was, I’d still read this!

Allergic: A Graphic Novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd

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While the story on the surface of Allergic: A Graphic Novel sounds simple, there is also the complicity of learning of an illness and the result of it being “not fair” to the person dealing with the situation. There is also the typical growing up issues of siblings, friendship, and fear issues. All of it will come to a head by the end and while it might seem overwhelming our heroine, Maggie, finds a way. Megan Wagner Lloyd’s story is an old one (coming to […]

Move over Lassie, Honey is in town

Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln by Shari Swanson

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I have been meaning to read Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln for awhile now. I had the reader copy and saw it in various places around the store once it came out a year ago. But it was not until a chance (or more actually blind) grab at a pile of reader copies in the page by the desk that it came out and the rule was, “Read what you grab.” Shari Swanson bases her story of Abe Lincoln as a boy on […]

I scream you scream for Halloween! (Or: Autumn books that can be Halloween books )

We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt by Mary Hogan Wilcox

She Wanted to Be Haunted by Marcus Ewert

The Little Kitten by Nicola Killen

A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Pumpkin Monster by Amy Young

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This is Halloween, this is Halloween/Pumpkins scream in the dead of night Okay, these four books are on the other side of Halloween. They are not spooky (or at least not to the level of The Nightmare Before Christmas) but they are fun, can acutely be an autumn read (or even anytime read) and can be absolutely perfect for the right audience. We’re Going on a Pumpkin Hunt by Mary Hogan Wilcox is probably my least favorite of the group. That’s not to say it is […]

Making Friends one paw at a time

Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog by Lisa Papp

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Have a box of tissues ready if you plan on reading Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog by Lisa Papp.  This is a “hard tug” at the heartstrings picture book. Madeline Finn and her dog, Star, must pass three tests for Star to become a therapy dog. And while most people take to Star (and him to them) at the nursing home where he is taking his tests, there is one person that seems to be immune to Star’s charms. But Madeline Finn knows what […]

Two reviews: a CBR12Bingo for Debut and a couple of “old timers”

Lift by Minh Le

Lone Wolf by Sarah Kurpiel 

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cbr12bingo  Debut One can find their “pack” or friends and family anyplace. Or more accurately, the “right anyplace.” And in Lift by Minh Le (who wrote Drawn Together which I greatly liked as well as a Green Lantern for the middle school crowd, which I enjoyed) and illustrated by Dan Santat you find an interesting “pack of friends.” And with Lone Wolf by Sarah Kurpiel the right place to find your family/pack can be right under your nose. And also a debut author can be under […]



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