"The Day the Crayons Quit" - Review

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Violet Says: 5 stars!
I love this book! I'm still working on learning my colors, and each crayon gets their own page, which is a great way to try and keep all these colors straight. I especially love the peach page, where the crayon is naked; that's funny. The drawings are funny and I like to guess how each crayon feels by looking at its "facial" expression. I ask for this book a lot; because long titles are a pain to pronounce, I call this book "Duncan" since the crayons are all Duncan's crayons, and they each write a note to Duncan.

Dad Says: also 5 stars!
A funny book with a great hook and excellent (crayon-based) art. Each of Duncan's crayons have sent him a letter expressing their various concerns, complaints, and compliments. The book is almost entirely these literally self-penned notes. The text may be on the longer side (I sometimes need a glass of water mid-book) but there are enough jokes to keep it moving, and enough going on textually and visually to make re-reading a pleasure. Some of the pages are quite funny, a couple pages connect to tell little mini-narratives, and the variety within the wonderfully stylized illustrations (by Oliver Jeffries who I'm just learning about) on each page keeps both of our attentions. We first got this book out of the library, but when it had to be returned we actually decided to go out and buy a copy of our very own! This is, of course, the highest praise any book could ever hope to receive.

"The Day the Crayons Quit" is highly recommended by us both!

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