Cannonball Chris

By: Jean Marzollo

Illustrated by: Blanche Sims

Random House  1987

(Number of pages: 47)

      

This book was about a young boy named Chris who was afraid of deep water and had the courage to face his fears.  This book was appropriate for first to third grade readers.  It teaches self esteem and courage as its message. The illustrations were very descriptive and would find it interesting to explore all the details in each page. This was defiantly a book I would read to a classroom or to my own child.  The book teaches courage and how the encouragement of others can positively affect a person.  Children would be able to easily relate to Chris and his predicament.  Students could use the message in this book as a way to find similarities in their classmates and find commonality.