Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You might be cool, but you’ll probably never be Have two dinosaurs named after you cool

The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur by Helaine Becker

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Kids can do some fair out stuff. Like find fossils of dinosaurs. Well, at least Wendy Sloboda did (the Wendiceratops), and we see how in The Fossil Whisper: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur. As you will learn later in the book, she does more than that. Finding some of the most information fossils and information the field has ever seen, she did most of it in her own backyard (or the Canadian Badlands, or not too far from where she grew up).  And Helaine […]

Take a hike

The Hike: (Nature Book for Kids, Outdoors-Themed Picture Book for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners) by Alison Farrell

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The Hike: (Nature Book for Kids, Outdoors-Themed Picture Book for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners) probably is all you need to know about the book. Yet, to expand it is a fictional story of three friends (though there is an image that makes it seem as if they are siblings), who go on a hike to explore. And they find a little of this and a little of that and of little of something else. The hike results in the three of them finding the big and […]

Meet the friends of, and Planet, you are standing on

Ocean! Waves for All? by Stacey McAnulty

Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth? by Stacey McAnulty

Earth! My First 4.54 billion Years by Stacey McAnulty

Sun! One in a Billion? by Stacey McAnulty

Mars! Earthlings Welcome by Stacey McAnulty

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Stacey McAnulty has caused me great stress. I cannot decide which of her books I liked best in the Our Universe series. Was it Ocean! Waves for All? Or was it Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth? Or even Earth! My First 4.54 billion Years (the first in the series)? Or the Sun! One in a Billion? Or even Mars! Earthlings Welcome. Each one is a lovely, funny, and educational way to learn about the planets, stars and more. Each subject tells their own […]

If you want to keep on swimmin’ you’ll need to take care of the planet first

To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat

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To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat is a lovely story about how one small event, person, or thing, can have a global impact. And if each one of us bans together, we can try and help the issues we have created. Of course, there is little new to this concept presented in the pages of Soontorvat’s story. Yet, it is a nice book. It would be good for a classroom setting, or a quiet time read. The colorfully bold illustrations by Rahele Jomepour Bell […]

Finding the right book but maybe wrong time

Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman

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I am probably the only person who is not going to be or is jumping up and down and shouting the praises of Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps. It is not because I disliked Charlotte Watson Sherman’s picture book, it is just that something was off for me. The story is sweet: a young girl named Kenzie wants to be swim in the ocean, say hello to the animals and be a mermaid. But one day she cannot swim freely as there is more […]

Baby it’s cold outside (for a couple thousands years) now

What Was the Ice Age? by Nico Medina

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One of the nice things about a subject and not a person is, while you can contest some facts or you are always adding to the knowledge at hand, a theme like The Ice Age is not necessarily controversial (compared to someone like Walt Disney, Michael Jackson, Helen Keller, or even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.). Therefore, when I was reading this addition to the “Who/What” series I was really reading it and not wondering, “Are they going to mention X?” Or “Will they get […]



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