Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Did I go off on a little bit of a tangent? Yes. But was I wrong…?

What Happened to You by James Catchpole

Love Makes A Family by Sophie Beer

Kindness Makes Us Stronger by Sophie Beer

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When I think about the kids we’re raising, as a whole right now, I’m so goddamn hopeful for the future that I can’t even really express it, for fear of losing my “unaffected internet witch” cool points (Note: I do not actually have any of those points). But it’s true: I have been a part of raising the children in my life for 25-ish years now, and – as the aunt of two adult niblings, a couple of teenage ones, and a handful of under […]

Mistakes were made, but that’s totally okay!

The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken

Princesses Are Not Perfect by Kate Lum, Illustrated by Sue Hellard

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The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken This consists mostly of brief text and simple drawings.  We go on a journey of what happens when someone makes a mistake, this time with art.  The artist makes a mistake, and in the process makes another mistake in trying to fix it.  But then they try something else that turns out well. Mistakes keep getting made, but the fixing of them sends the project on an entirely new direction. This teaches us that instead of constantly erasing […]

The princess ends up much better off at the end

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I’d heard of this in a few places, so I was glad to get the chance to actually read it.  This children’s book is very cute with a bit of a twist at the end. We start off with a princess getting to marry a prince.  They both have very fancy clothes and are very proper. Then, a dragon comes and burns the princess’s castle down and takes the prince with him.  All of the princess’s belongings burned, and the only thing she can find […]

New adventures in an old favorite

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Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies by far.  And with the 30th anniversary of the movie happening a few years ago, there were a lot of celebratory books and figures and things that came out.  For three years on Free Comic Book Day, there was a short Labyrinth story included in the mix, and those eventually got published as a separate book.  The stories and illustrations are by Corey Godbey, who happened to be at New York Comic Con this year, so I was […]

I am Groot

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Okay, so I am shamelessly reading and reviewing this before giving it as a gift.  (I’m giving it to a 32-year-old man. Who cosplayed as Groot for ComicCon one year.  So only the best for my friends!) (Update – he loved it!)   Our premise is that Baby Groot is trying to go to bed, but Rocket is having none of that nonsense.  There are adventures to be had! The main story is told as a normal bedtime story with rhymes and all, but Rocket […]

The simplest of illustrations, and a book’s worth of confusion is born.

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In Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld’s Duck! Rabbit!, we start off with an unusual conundrum: Nobody is really sure what the main character actually is. We’re pretty sure it’s an animal. Of some sort. We’ve got it narrowed down to two, but that’s as close as we can guess. S/he could be a duck – see there? The bill, and the bread eating? or S/he could be a rabbit – only witness the carrot snack and the long, pointed ears. There’s really no telling, […]



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