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Michael Hall grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the creator of numerous acclaimed picture books for children, including Frankencrayon, Red: A Crayon’s Story, My Heart Is Like a Zoo, Perfect Square, and It’s an Orange Aardvark!Michael Hall grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the creator of numerous acclaimed picture books for children, including Frankencrayon, Red: A Crayon’s Story, My Heart Is Like a Zoo, Perfect Square, and It’s an Orange Aardvark!

“In Hall’s signature style of painted paper and digitally produced line art and shapes, an angry badger gets a lovingly delivered lesson on kindness from his friends. . . .This simple tale will resonate with young children, who often have big emotions for reasons they cannot verbalize. . . .Visually appealing for the intended audience, with a message centered on acceptance and repaying hurtful actions with kindness, this work is full of warmth and sensitivity toward its audience. Highly recommended.” — School Library Journal“Wordplay propels Hall’s witty and compassionate story about kindness as one response to difficult behavior. . . . A winsome book about one way of caring for loved ones in distress.” — Publishers Weekly“Witty and offbeat, this moral tale offers an uncommonly complex lesson in practicing empathy.” — Horn Book Magazine