The Chalk Box Kid -- Clyde Robert Bulla, Paperback

A classroom favorite about the power of art and creativity.

A new neighborhood. A new school. A lonely birthday. Life isn't easy for nine-year-old Gregory. Then he finds an abandoned chalk factory behind his house. It's a secret place, just for him Now he can draw anything he imagines on the dark brick walls. What amazing thing will Gregory draw first?

Two beloved classics--The Chalk Box Kid and The Paint Brush Kid--get a vibrant new look

Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/12/1987
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 7.62h x 5.13w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780394891026
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.7
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 255 / Chalk Box Kid


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/13/1987

About the Author
Clyde Robert Bulla (1914-2007) was born on a farm near King City, Missouri. He went to a one-room country school. Reading and writing were his favorite subjects, and by the time he was seven, Bulla knew he wanted to be a writer. After years of writing magazine stories and novels and working on his hometown newspaper, he found that he really wanted to write for children. More than 70 of his books for boys and girls have been published.

Thomas B. Allen (1928-2004) was an American expressionist painter and illustrator known for his role in the rise of visual journalism in the 1950s and 1960s. Later in his career, he began illustrating children's books such as The Chalk Box Kid, In Coal Country, and Grandma's General Store: The Ark.