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The Day The Crayons Quit Paperback – Picture Book, 26 March 2018
Drew Daywalt
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Product details
- ASIN : 0007513763
- Publisher : HarperCollins GB (26 March 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 40 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780007513765
- Reading age : 3 - 6 years
- Dimensions : 25.2 x 0.6 x 25.1 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 6,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for The Day the Crayons Quit:
“Hilarious picture book brilliance…” Books for Keeps
“It’s funny, clever and pushes kids’ creativity.” The Telegraph
“…stunning illustrations” Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian
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‘As ever, Jeffers’s illustrations delight, inspire and surprise with their variety and ingenuity.’ The Guardian
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About the Author
Oliver Jeffers graduated from The University of Ulster in 2001 with First Class honours. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award. ‘Lost and Found’ animation was broadcast on Channel 4. Oliver lives and works in Brookyln, New York.
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The Day The Crayons Quit
Poor Duncan just wants to colour in. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!
Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown, Blue needs a break from colouring in all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other.
The battle lines have been drawn. What is Duncan to do?
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The language seems more suitable for 8 or older.
The illustrations look and feel like they were made directly on the page by real crayons, which gives it a nice touch (pun intended).
All in all, I think I'll use the idea but tell each letter differently, perhaps with some actual stories.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2018
The language seems more suitable for 8 or older.
The illustrations look and feel like they were made directly on the page by real crayons, which gives it a nice touch (pun intended).
All in all, I think I'll use the idea but tell each letter differently, perhaps with some actual stories.


As for the story itself, it's very well written, a great idea supported fantastically by the illustrations. If you do unique voices for each colour be sure to remember which crayon has which voice next time you read it, otherwise you'll be constantly interrupted by cries of "This is green not brown!"
The only downside is that the style of writing on the letters makes it difficult for my 6 year old nephew to join in the reading, he's great at typed text but struggles with the crayon font.


The main section of this book features one letter per spread along with a drawing depicting the crayon’s problem. Jeffers’ illustrations are simply perfect and every crayon’s issue rings true with how children use crayons. None more so for me than Peach crayon who is in hiding after Duncan pealed off its paper wrapping!