Watch out, Hawker library. There’s a new book in town. And it’s rushed to claim a spot in the family favourites list.
Meet The Day the Crayons Quit.
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The Day the Crayons Quit / Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
(HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2014)
Duncan goes to take out his crayons in class one day, and finds a stack of letters instead. His crayons have quit!
The crayons all have different reasons for quitting. Red Crayon is sick of working on holidays (Santas at Christmas, hearts for Valentine’s Day), Grey Crayon is tired of colouring in soooo much space on its own (elephants, rhinos and hippos), and Black Crayon feels it was destined for bigger and brighter things than providing outlines for all the other colours to fill in.
Meanwhile, Yellow Crayon and Orange Crayon are fighting over who is the true colour of the sun, and Pink Crayon feels left out altogether.
We all love The Day the Crayons Quit. Even my so-close-now-but-not-quite-three-year-old little man, who I thought would be too young for this book, requests it most nights and can tell me exactly why each crayon is unhappy. (His favourite phrases are Grey Crayon’s “You’re KILLING ME!” and Peach Crayon’s “I need some clothes. HELP!”)
My son’s favourite page is the one featuring Green Crayon. Green is his favourite colour anyway, but I think he likes it because it’s my favourite page, and I always have a little chuckle to myself after reading the line, “I … wish to congratulate you on a very successful ‘colouring things Green’ career so far.” *snort*
My (almost-six-year-old) daughter’s favourite page is the Peach Crayon. Poor Peach Crayon is too embarrassed to leave the crayon box after Duncan removed its paper wrapping.
The Day the Crayons Quit is a delight to read, and I was surprised by my youngest’s keen interest in what is a non-rhyming, quite wordy book. Highly recommended for children of all ages, but older kids and those who enjoy reading will appreciate it all the more.
You can purchase The Day the Crayons Quit from Booktopia here, or from Book Depository here. The Day the Crayons Quit is also part of the current Dymocks 3 for $30 picture book promotion.
And if you’d like the chance to win a copy of The Day the Crayons Quit, along with four other children’s book titles, check out my current giveaway, courtesy of Dymocks. Hurry – entries close Friday 1 April.
Have you read The Day the Crayons Quit? What did you think?
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We love The Day The Crayons Quit, and also the sequel The Day The Crayons Came Back which was a Christmas gift for our 5 year old. Definitely fun for the adults and kids alike!
I’ve already ordered TDTCCB!
My daughter is obsessed with crayons and books so it’s the perfect combination for her.
Certainly sounds like it! She might assign feelings to her crayons, now.
Awww. This is gorgeous!
It really is! I love it.
Oh what a lovely book. People come up with some of the best ideas.
They really do! And it sets the kids’ imaginations off, too.
One of our household faves too and it made my list of books adults love to read to kids. We also have the day the crayons came back and it’s equally good with neon crayons and a glow in the dark page! Xx
Neon? Glow in the dark? Can’t wait for it to arrive!
I’ve never heard of it… but I love the sound of it and I know my girls will too. Off to check out your competition!
Good luck!
I’d heard this book was fabulous. Now I really want a copy!
Justifiably! It really is wonderful. The only downside is that my son figures since there’s already crayon scribble in it, he can add some more.
We got this last week and my kids love it too. My almost three year old loves the green page too!
Diplomatic Green Crayon, trying to smooth things out!
I got this book for my niece for Christmas! I really liked it. A few too many words for my impatient boys at this stage (they like to turn pages quickly!) but I may get it for them one day too.
That’s what I thought would happen when I flicked through the book – I’m surprised my little man loves it as much as he does! I need to upgrade the books in his regular circulation.
My seven year old adores this book and tells me the story all the time…
Love it! Favourite crayon colour?
It sounds like such a fun book. I can just imagine the thoughts the author put into it. It would have been cool to write I’m guessing.
If it was half as much fun to write as it is to read, then yes!
This book looks awesome! I will have to check out your giveaway 🙂
Please do – good luck!
I’ve been meaning to buy this one, but just haven’t gotten around to it! It sounds hilarious and I bet you could do lots of fun voices with it too 🙂
Oh yes, the voices are fun! Some crayons are angry, others sad, and others matter-of-fact. Lots of voices!
There really are some fabulous kids books around aren’t there?
SOOOO many. I hope one of them has my name on it one day!
This is such a lovely book. Sugarpuff loves it and the sequel The Day The Crayons Came Back
Can’t wait to read the sequel!
We LOVE both crayons books. Best thing to happen to nighttime stories since Stuck 🙂
Oh, how good is Stuck? As good as the crayons are, Stuck reigns supreme. Bless that Floyd.
I love the look of this book – what a great idea! Sad face because I don’t have any little ones anymore 🙁 .
Visiting from #teamIBOT x
Just buy it to have in the house for when little ones unexpectedly drop by? 😉
WE LOVE THAT BOOK!!!! It’s bloody brilliant. There’s a second one too and my girls love it! (although the glow in the dark page doesn’t glow.)
I can’t wait to get the second one!
Our kids ADORE this – as do I – we have it sitting in our library book pile to return! x
Glad they loved it!
Sounds like such a fun book Em. My kids are nearly 15 and nearly 11 I miss the days when my kids would sit and listen to me read. Though I have started trying to read Enid Blyton books a chapter a night. We are reading The Naughtiest Girl series and the St Clare’s series. My girls particularly love the St Clare’s series because it is about twins and they are twins lol.
That sounds great! My daughter loved the Magic Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair books, and now I think she’s reading Mister Muddle.
How cute is this? I must get this for my boys – I am done reading Ninja Lego books!! This sounds adorable 😉
Fair enough! I think I’d be over Lego books too. I hope they enjoy it!