Ruth Chan – Cannonball Read 17

Reversing the trip

Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan

March 14, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Diversity The CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge The graphic novel Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan is a fun story about when your whole life is not just turned around with a move and that move is all the way across the world! Ruth, a young teen, and her parents move to Hong Kong (her mothers hometown) from Canada when her father gets a great new job in China. If this wasn’t bad enough, her brother is staying […]

From Canada to Hong Kong, with Love

Uprooted by Ruth Chan

January 9, 2025 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Ruth has only known life in Canada. But when her Chinese-born father has a job opportunity in Hong Kong, he and his wife excitedly make plans to move back to their home country, uprooting Ruth from the only life she has known. Her older brother is a boarding school student and gets to stay behind, so Ruth, their pets, and her parents set off to start over. At least, it’s starting over for Ruth. She speaks a little Cantonese, as her parents insist on using […]

Jack (Prelutsky) is back!

Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky

October 30, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you like eggs? Bugs? Funny and punny kids poems? Then Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky is for you. Now, not all are about food, but several are. There is something for all tastes, but they do lean towards the silly, goofy and sometimes down right well…. less than a Rhodes Scholar. But for the most part, everything is funny and has a message behind them. The rhyming text makes it easy to read. Good for a classroom, by […]

Ok, who licked the butter?

The Great Indoors by Julie Falatko

November 13, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Great Indoors started out strong. In fact, I had an idea what was going to happen before the first page. You know the title, you see the cover and then page one you see the humans leave. Of course, this was going to be a quirky story of animals having a relaxing vacation from the great outdoors! But, sadly, it fell short at the last minute. Julie Falatko has the humor (the skunk is going to take another shower), there is the busyness of […]

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