Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
ISBN: 9780007513765
This fun picture book is about the letters a little boy’s crayons wrote him one day, about his use of them in his pictures. Duncan loves to colour in, but the crayons feel overworked (…or neglected) and decide to QUIT! Havoc rules in the crayon box – until Duncan creatively solves the problem, because he wants all his crayons to be happy!
“The combination of text and Oliver Jeffers’ illustrations match the colours’ personalities beautifully as the crayons share their concern, appreciation, or downright frustration” ~ Amazon
Oliver Jeffers communicates the emotion of the crayons in simple gestures in his illustrations, and it elevates crayon drawing to remarkable heights.
Brilliant! No wonder it’s a Number One New York Times Bestseller!
* Some kids may not understand the concept of paper jackets around the crayons (which the peach crayon refers to as “clothes”), because mostly they’re used to retractable crayons, but the illustrations in the book explain it well.
This book is for fans of humorous books such as Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith, and for fans of Oliver Jeffers’ Stuck, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Lost and Found, and This Moose Belongs to Me.
The Day the Crayons Quit was written in 2013, and later announced as the 2015 Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner. It won the 2015 Nevada Young Readers Award and the 2016 California Young Reader Medal.
In October 2014, Daywalt announced a sequel to the book titled The Day the Crayons Came Home.
Downloads!
Make your own crayons like the ones in the book: follow the link to Oliver Jeffers’ website (click!)
Have a look at the book (listen to a reading):
