Reading with Ella - Book 16

The Chalk Box Kid - by Clyde Robert Bulla

An unusual chapter book, certainly. This book definitely had an atmosphere, it was bleak and grey. If depression was a book, this might be it. I felt sad just reading it, but surprisingly Ella was pretty engaged.

The story itself was inoffensive and unremarkable, but I'm low-key convinced it is a powerful dark magic artefact sent from some far-off fantasy land.

Quite bleak for a children's book 6/10 

Staging Outcome: To The BookBox. I usually don't do staging outcomes for Ella's books but this was making me sad just existing in our house.