From the creative minds behind the The Day the Crayons Quitand The Day the Crayons Came Home, comes a fun board book introducing young readers to colors. The letters are mildly amusing, but the accompanying pictures are even better, illustrating each crayon's issue in a spot-on child-like style. His first trip into live action landed him studio screenwriting and feature film directing work with such Hollywood luminaries as Quentin Tarrantino, Lawrence Bender, Tony Scott, Brett Ratner and Jerry Bruckheimer. 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.

Overall, “The Day the Crayons Quit” is an extremely interesting and creative story about how children can use their imaginations to create something gorgeous and creative for their artwork! 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. Laugh-out-loud funny and outrageous at times, this read-aloud will have listeners jumping out of their seats. While kids will snicker reading this on their own, it’s perfect for a guffawing share with younger sibs or buddy read, followed, of course, by a rousing game of Rock Paper Scissors.

I could turn a game of War into a long drawn out romantic epic, thanks to the personalities ascribed to various playing cards. Oliver Jeffers is fun to watch no matter what he does and Daywalt has the makings of a fine author for kids.

The game sounded super familiar, so I looked in the rear view mirror and asked Abby, “Are you guys playing rock, paper, scissors? One of the things I love about an occasional visit to Barnes and Noble is getting my hands on a darling (brand spanking new) little gem like this in the children's book section. He was asked to change his habits to make his beloved crayons happier, and he took their needs into consideration and changed for them - and the experience was rewarding for all.

I really liked the last painting, it should encourage kids to be creative, while the colors of different things are not accurate, it came out actually as an amazing painting! If nobody knows that you're unhappy, it's unlikely that anything is going to change on its own, so you have to have the self-respect to stand up for your own needs. I’m okay with it in college and high school, especially for art majors where I suppose it’s a necessity. So I've now read The Day the Crayons Quit (Drew Daywalt/Oliver Jeffries) and well, I'm disappointed. 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.

Admittedly I was a little surprised that the purple crayon's letter wasn't written on lined paper (since it's such a stickler for staying inside the lines) while the gray crayon's was. I love the message of the book, even though it is extremely didactic, and the humor and the pictures are wonderful. I would recommend this book to children ages five and up since the Crayons’ letters might be a bit too long for smaller children. Luckily for colored wax everywhere, Duncan proves to be an excellent mediator, and an acceptable (not to mention colorful) solution is found. 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.The more I think about it, the more I am in favor of children's books preaching the message of collective bargaining. This gave me the idea to someday use an unlikely duo in a buddy comedy travel story about two toys with very different perspectives. But then I saw them, like a beacon on a hill… there, on my desk, sat an ancient box of my old crayons next to the hula girl pen holder my grandpa had left me in his will.