I haven’t been reading many picture books lately, but with large groups of college students above and below me (don’t get me started) while I can’t focus on my current novel, I was able to concentrate on a picture book, and thanks to Goodreads friend Kathryn for encouraging me to read this particular book, and due to it being due at the library Monday, I just read it, and I’m glad I did. From the creative minds behind the The Day the Crayons Quitand The Day the Crayons Came Home, comes a fun board book introducing young readers to colors. I love the message of the book, even though it is extremely didactic, and the humor and the pictures are wonderful. Interestingly, on the previous page the pink crayon has been making a very different complaint about never being allowed to draw cowboys or dinos or monsters.

It's an easy mistake to make if you're not thinking about it at first, but you would have thought that someone in the course of editing this thing might have brought the point up with Mr. After he played me his song of the day - All in a Family by Loudon Wainwright - he cheerfully located the book for me. There are a lot of hat tips to the crayons' demands to be found here, from black rainbows to white cats.

I didn't have any kids nearby to test this on, but on the whole I suspect that is the kind of kid's book that entertain adults more than kids. The letters are mildly amusing, but the accompanying pictures are even better, illustrating each crayon's issue in a spot-on child-like style. But as I read through the book I kept thinking that were it not for the art of Oliver Jeffers, this title would be a difficult read. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best? Overall, “The Day the Crayons Quit” is an extremely interesting and creative story about how children can use their imaginations to create something gorgeous and creative for their artwork!

I don't always review books that my son brings home from the school library (unless I love or HATE them haha) but this one made the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards and several of you have it on your "to-read" list. Why am I going on and on about unintentional messages in works of children's fiction in preface to talking about this book? Mixed-media illustrations, done with crayons and photographic postcards, introduce lively new scenery and brilliant characters.Jeffers’s illustrations to make a picture book that will have children clamoring for more crayon adventures.

Even though it was a level 3 read, my twin 3 yr olds loved it as well, and all my kids were tickled "pink" (pun intended) that the crayons revolted. That's why the success of the book (and success it indeed is) can be ascribed primarily to its illustrator. those that have a dispute between them, like about who is better to depict the sun, or those that think their color should over-spill outside the lines .We had a great number of people who stayed with us over the years, my parents helping them out while they were down on their luck. I could turn a game of War into a long drawn out romantic epic, thanks to the personalities ascribed to various playing cards. Daywalt’s text, set in a range of expressive fonts, combines the heightened verbosity of vintage action comics with the swagger of backyard scuffles, and Rex composes wildly dramatic battle scenes against backdrops of thunderstorms, erupting volcanoes, and missile launches. First, my son and I really enjoyed the story and the illustrations; he had to examine the expressions of each crayon and discuss their moods and well as the pictures that were drawn using the crayons. Kids like to believe that the objects that they play with are as invested in the experience as the kids themselves.

When Duncan started reading the letters, he realized that all of his crayons were complaining to him about either how little he uses them or how much he uses them for his drawings and that they want to be treated better. It’s got terrific art (having the illustrator being the same artist who did the pictures for the book This Moose Belongs to Me was also reason I was interested in this book) and the large picture one page from the end is really wonderful. The book is short, as most children's books are, so the reading was only 7 minutes long, but I almost wish that it was longer, that the pictures were shown more, and that I could really appreciate the art that these crayons produced.I have to say that this book was pretty interesting for a book about crayons and I really loved the way that Drew Daywalt wrote the story as the story is told mostly through the letters written by the crayons and how they are complaining to Duncan, the little boy, about how they are not treated fairly and that they want to be used a bit better whenever Duncan does his drawings. In fact, I wonder how many wonderful authors don’t get seen because they don’t have silly jokes or cute animals or recycle “Mommy Loves Me” or “Mouse Gets a New Outfit” stories. My son once held up a plastic Godzilla missing it’s tail and half an arm and said it was his favorite toy. The whole point of these books is to get children reading, and when the text is too messy and out of line, it is really difficult for them to read on their own. The more I think about it, the more I am in favor of children's books preaching the message of collective bargaining.