The Day The Crayons Quit

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See how everyone’s favorite little astromech droid makes friends and foils enemies in this funny and exciting new Star Wars adventure! The crayons on my desk that night looked exactly like their counterparts in the book eventually would. The black rabbit is, in fact, the little rabbit's own shadow and at the end he comes to love the big black rabbit after all. So Godzila became a put upon stuffed bunny named Huggie and Stick became smaller and less cumbersome and Huggie and Stick was born. I'm going to lay out the facts as they stand and you can judge for yourself whether or not this book does indeed make a major you-can't-do-that-in-the-21st-century mistake, or if I'm simply suffering from a case of Reading Too Much Into It.

A hilarious twist on a classic bedtime story: When a boy who routinely refuses to go to bed gets a talkative stuffed animal, the tables are turned! 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. The letters are mildly amusing, but the accompanying pictures are even better, illustrating each crayon's issue in a spot-on child-like style. Or pink saying, "Could you please use me sometime to color the occasional pink dinosaur or monster or cowboy?So round about now you're trying to figure out what the heck any of this has to do with The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. So I've now read The Day the Crayons Quit (Drew Daywalt/Oliver Jeffries) and well, I'm disappointed. This new cast of crayons will entertain readers, and admirers of the first book will be pleased to see a few familiar colors. One day Duncan pulls out his well-used crayon box, and instead of his faithful friends, he finds a pile of letters they've written to him, detailing their complaints and other observations.

It tells the story of Duncan, a little boy who comes home to find his crayons missing and a stack of letters in their place. Together this odd couple survives encounters with sea-faring pirates, raging rhinos in Africa, sword-wielding royalty in Europe, stick-eating panda bears in Asia, sharks in Australia, hungry penguins in Antarctica, and piranhas in South America–all before finally making it home to North America. Jeffers does what he can to give as much life and vitality as he can to the text, but there are twelve letters in here and around the orange and yellow crayons you'll be forgiven if your attention starts to wane. Even though advanced readers can read on their own, I'd highly recommend this one being a family read. but honestly, having a crayon to match their skin was of less interest to most kids than hoarding the 'highly-valued' metallic crayons or even chalk.

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. I sigh a little when I think of how many people bought the Day the Crayons Quit, but have never heard of Harris Burdick. The letters look really good, by the bye] and there's a sample of the coloring they're talking about. There was a stack of bills, but I knew moms and dads wouldn’t sleep well after reading that bedtime story.