Ross Burach – Cannonball Read 17

I like books but not this one, but maybe you will

How NOT to Make a Jelly Sandwich by Ross Burach

October 8, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In my role as a bookseller, behind the scenes operator and an aunt I find many different types of books with varying degrees of likable success. One of those books I found recently was an online reader called How NOT to Make a Jelly Sandwich by Ross Burach who is doing double duty as author and illustrator. The book’s result became one that was not different in the sense the idea was different (a girl makes a sandwich in a creative way as we have […]

Don’t Worry Be Happy… even if your smile is upside down

Don’t Worry, Bee Happy: An Acorn Book by Ross Burach

June 20, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Bumble and Bee books are going to be the next Elephant and Piggie series for the beginning reader. Ross Burach has created three stories about Bumble, Bee and Froggy in the first book, Don’t Worry, Bee Happy: An Acorn Book. Coming out in late December 2019/early January 2020 your young reader can find out how Bumble and Bee and Froggy have adventures and misadventures as they take pictures, scare hiccups and doing a wiggly dance. This book was not meant for me. It is […]

The Impatient Ones

The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach

April 9, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When you work in a bookstore, you never know what you might find. I was talking to a co-worker and he told me he had several copies sent to him of The Very Impatient Caterpillar. I know he thought of this book as I was being a bit of an impatient caterpillar myself (my lunch was stuck to the plate I used and was not coming clean as quickly as I hoped). Therefore, I was excited to read about myself…. I mean about a caterpillar […]

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