Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Stories and ads tell the tale

Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers

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I am not sure I was the intended audience for Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers. However, I think everyone should read this graphic novel as it is not just about the hair of women of color but the story of women in the bigger picture. I feel anyone can find a piece of themselves inside these stories. There are triggers (including but not limited to drug use, abuse, bullying, racism within the community), but they are there to move the story along/to show the situation […]

Hoops is the name, being true to you the game

Lion on the Inside: How One Girl Changed Basketball by Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir

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Do you want a fun book about basketball, being true to yourself and girl power?  Lion on the Inside: How One Girl Changed Basketball is the book for you. Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, Judith Henderson and Katherine Ahmed made this book. They took Abdul-Qaadir’s life and show us how one brave woman fought the system to stay true to who she was and honor her faith. The idea that as a Muslim girl, Bilqis Abul-Qaadir was not allowed to “wear a scarf” while playing basketball. It did […]

Regardless if Yay or Nay for Senator Elizabeth Warren, this is a neat picture book bio

Elizabeth Warren's Big, Bold Plans by Laurie Ann Thompson

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Elizabeth Warren is a politician who can be and has been very controversial over recent years. Elizabeth Warren’s Big, Bold Plans by Laurie Ann Thompson ends right before 2020 as it was published in the spring of that year, however, the main information is still relevant. Of course, I assume that if someone is doing a biography of a person, particularly a picture book, they are a fan of that person. Afterall, unless you just want to write a scathing exposé, why write anything? And […]

The 3 Named Hippie Nun

Sister Corita's Words and Shapes by Jeanette Winter

Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent by Mara Rockliff

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Who was Sister Corita? To start with, she was a woman who would have three names by the end of her life, each representing that chapter her journey was in.  Born Frances Elizabeth Kent, she would enter the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart at age 18, becoming Sister Mary Corita Kent, then after over 30 years, she would leave them and become Corita Kent. She was a creative person that made her students think, see/look, and do it outside of the box. During a time […]

Packed a punch with love

Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace

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One of the things that always gets to me is that the Civil Rights movement was not “ancient history” but “recent history.” In fact, so recent that Diane Nash of Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement is only 85 years old (in 2023). This means that she is only about 12 years older than my father. And while that is a bit of a gap when you are in your early teens and someone is in her 20’s, that still […]

Big time feminism

Giantess: The Story of the Girl Who Traveled the World in Search of Freedom by JC Deveney

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I saw the online reader copy for Giantess: The Story of the Girl Who Traveled the World in Search of Freedom ages ago. And didn’t get to it because I had others I wanted to read first, plus I lost the link for a while, but then a new one appeared in Edelweiss. The cover seemed to make this Jean-Christophe Deveney/JC Deveney graphic novel have a particular theme, but went a slightly different way. I assumed we would find an outcast who would find how […]



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