Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Move over Tiny Rex! The Big Predators are in town!

Mega-Predators of the Past by Melissa Stewart

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“Dinosaurs? What is that? Something you put ointment on?” You will say after reading, Mega-Predators of the Past. Those (as the book says, but honestly, I agree with) scene stealing dinosaurs are nothing compared to the real predators of history. From the smallest (great scorpions and griffenflies (a really large dragonfly-like being) at 28 inches) to the largest (the over 100-foot blue whale) you will see the great creatures. Melissa Stewart gives us as it was. Or, in the case of the blue whale, how […]

Imagination & Play Andrew’s way

Up Where the Stars Are (Andrew's Adventures in Nature by Ryan Jacobson

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I started reading this on Edelweiss online. It was a medium sized sample, but I think I got enough to know that I enjoyed this book and when it comes out, I want to see more of Up Where the Stars Are (Andrew’s Adventures in Nature). The story is centered around Andrew, a young man with special needs. His situation is not the focus, or what he cannot do, but what he can do. The part of the story I was able to read was […]

Hello Moon, It’s me!

hello, moon by Evan Turk

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I thought that hello, moon was going to be something sappy. Now, I do not mind something sweet, but when it is sappy sugary? I am not as quick to like it. However, Evan Turk’s picture book was sweet but not over the top. Oh, sure we have a little kid saying Hello to the Moon, but honestly, who has not done that at least once? And it is countered by the fact that not only are you having an emotional moment between child and […]

Messages of light

Light Speaks by Christine Layton

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Light Speaks is created by Christine Layton and Luciana Navarro Powell (illustrations). The publication date is early April 2023. I had the pleasure of reading an advanced readers copy via Edelweiss. It is classified as Juvenile Nonfiction, Science & Nature, and Astronomy. It is a simple book but includes pieces of information that you may not realize. And it is all done in a prose poetic manner. This picture book combines the science of light and simplified it for most ages. It allows us to […]

Action! It’s Grass Time!

In A Patch of Grass by Fran Hodgkins

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In March 2023 In A Patch of Grass will be published. Hopefully. Because if it does not, I will be most upset at the publisher W W Norton! This science book by Fran Hodgkins and illustrated by Dan Tavis (fantastically I might add) is a must have. You learn about spiders, worms, slugs, even a wuff! Set as a movie production, Stephen Spielbug directs a not always the most cooperative cast (Robin calls out sick, worm misses its cue, slug tries to clean up its […]

Baby you’re the tops

Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals  by Linda Ashman

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Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals  might be one of my favorite books this year. Linda Ashman and Aparna Varma (illustrators wonderfully done by) crated a book that has facts, little fiction, and a lot of fun. A page of facts follows a poem about different animals and the things they do. Chomp well, stink well, and so much more. I am partial to the stinking ones (okay, I like some of the chompers, too. And then there is the ones […]



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