Michael Hall – Cannonball Read 17

Paint the town red

Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall

December 9, 2023 by Travis_J_Smith 9 Comments

As soon as I saw the author of Dotson namedrop Red, I knew I had to seek it out. I understood immediately why a trans person would identify with the story of a mislabeled crayon and thought that honestly anybody could benefit from the core idea, which is that labels shouldn’t define you. It doesn’t just apply to the trans community, although that is probably the group that will find it the most relatable. No, anybody can take something away from this. Even if you are comfortable […]

May your 2020 have this Swinging good book in it

Swing by Michael Hall

January 31, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Swing is a sweet story, if not a bit obvious. Michael Hall has created text and art that is simple. However, there are a couple pages do have some fun details to sniff out. There is nothing wrong with this book, but just does not a lot of umph to it. The letter O, E, V and L come together on a playground. They are different from each other: E is from that group called vowels; L is in the middle of the alphabet while […]

Monkey See Monkey Tell Time

Monkey Time, by Michael Hall

August 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If you can get over the Minutes basically bullying the monkey in Michael Hall’s Monkey Time, the learning about telling time (with the use of a lot of minutes) and the science facts at the end, are fun. And that is the story. We learn about how one Dot is a Minute; 10 make up ten minutes and so on. But the dots tease monkey to the point when (spoiler) he catches the last minute he wants to eat it. Okay; I did and did […]

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