The Day the Crayons Quit Kindle Edition

I don't want to be a complainer here but I just have to say that the curiosity of a 3 year old has limits and for some reason those limits require reading the same book over and over and over and over again. Which is great if the book you're reading is one of the good ones but horrible if it's lousy.What's that dear, you can't find the Daniel Tiger books? That's because I used them to light the fire used to heat all the food you dropped on the floor during dinner and then fed it to your little sister because, as you know, we don't waste food around here. Ahem, I mean, that's weird sweetie, I'm sure we'll find them.Some books deserve to be read umpteen times, some books are a disgraceful capitalistic ploy with no redeeming qualities. Coming off of an evening of one too many Elmo books (which means 1 Elmo book if you're keeping track), I vowed to find something funny, intelligent and fun to read. A book that my daughter would request without causing a 10 minute back and forth about how "we should really try reading this other, much better book that you are really going to love." A book that would make me say, "of course we can read that book dear, and might I add, excellent choice."Well that's what you get with The Day The Crayons Quit. This is a book by which all other kids books should be judged. This is a book that knows its audience isn't only your little angel but also the people who are reading to your little angel. And that is what makes this book so brilliant. No matter your age, you will identify with the characters, they will probably remind you of your family, your coworkers and your friends.This book is in my top 10 books to read to my daughter. Lucky for me, she feels the same way.In case you're wondering, some of my other favorites are: The Three Little Pigs, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Small Pig, Where the Wild Things Are, I Want My Hat Back, Pete The Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, We're Going on A Bear Hunt, The Cat in the Hat

The book is "cute" and mildly humorous. However, I was quite unhappy with the messages that it sent to kids. The crayons complain about being used too much, and -- worse from my point of view -- kids are admonished for not coloring within the lines. I prefer books for kids that foster creativity, not begin to stifle it from a very young age.

I laughed a few times. It had cute moments.Cons: became a bit redundant with almost every page being a letter of complaint from a disgruntled crayon.I am always dismayed when it comes to children’s books and their handlings of issues like boundaries and nudity etc.Did the author have to talk about a naked crayon not wearing underwear?With the awareness of what’s happened to so many children throughout the years- with regards to abuse- I just feel like comical or flippant approach to nudity and boundaries is just kind of irresponsible.Fine he’s a nude crayon bc the jacket or label is off. But do we need to address lack of underwear?Just weird and not appropriate for a kids book in my opinion.Coloring outside the lines should not be discouraged as is done in this book. Kids should be left to decide what constitutes good/bad art. There are no rules with that.

I purchased this book for American Education Week. My daughter dressed as the pink crayon for storybook character day. She had lots of fun!

We'd purchased this cute little book for our youngest grandson's second birthday about seven months ago and, according to my daughter-in-law, it's a book that's been pulled out almost every day since! It centers around a creative youngster named Duncan, who solves his crayons' complaints by thinking "outside of the BOX" (pun intended!), and our two older grandsons both enjoy reading it to their younger brother. In this book, that box happens to be full of crayons who don't actually quit, but do have a list of grievances they present to their owner, who comes up with a very inventive solution to get the result HE wants (to be able to color with crayons who are in agreeable moods!) by providing them what THEY need (to be used in more ways than their shades would stereotypically be used for.) The letters the crayons have written to their owner are hilarious, and having each separate letter written on the left side of the spread in a child's handwriting, with the right side showing a child-like drawing of objects that shade is typically used to color, is a sure-fire way to immediately draw a youngster in. Nice collaborative effort by author and illustrator!Our older grandsons have a lot of fun voicing the letters written by "Red", who even has to work on holidays (i.e. coloring Santas, Valentines), "Purple" is going to "completely lose it" if Duncan doesn't start coloring inside of the lines soon, "Beige" (who is "BEIGE and PROUD!") is jealous of "Brown", "Gray" is tired of getting all of the BIG jobs (like coloring elephants, rhinos, hippos and HUMPBACK WHALES), "White" is feeling underutilized, "Black" doesn't find it fair that he's only used as an outline to brightly colored objects, "Green" is a peacemaker type (or a tattle tale, depending upon your outlook!), who claims to be very happy with his work, congratulates Duncan on his coloring career, but wants to inform him of the bickering between "Yellow" and "Orange" over who gets to be the color of the sun, with "Yellow" and "Orange" writing separate letters each stating their case along with documented proof, "Blue" is overworked and now just a stub who can't even see over the box railing any longer, "Pink" believes she's experiencing discrimination because she's "a girls' color", while "Peach" is completely unwrapped ("I don't even have any underwear!") and embarrassed to leave the box. Wow - what a conundrum! But the amazingly colorful picture Duncan creates - allowing each crayon to stretch beyond their typical usages - ends up earning him an A for coloring and an A+ for creativity!Speaking both as a mom and now a grandma, I've come to believe that one of the most important things an adult can do for their children/grandchildren is to strongly encourage them to be creative and use their imaginations. Whether he/she eventually becomes an astrophysicist, a police officer, a stay-at-home mom or dad, etc., EVERY occupation requires the use of those mental tools when called upon to problem-solve and come up with solutions. How many bosses out there couldn't learn a thing or two from Duncan? Excellent little book that youngsters are going to really enjoy... and that adults can take a lesson from as well.

I read this book once and won't read it again. My main reason is that pink is my two year old son's favourite colour and when you get to the letter from the pink crayon it goes on about the emphasis of pink being purely a girls colour for girly things. Way way behind the times and damaging! The letters are very sarcastic and quite rude and abrupt, very much adult humour. There's no moral or education or really a story. The only plus is that some adults may be more inclined to read to their kids as this book is very much aimed at those parents who don't like reading to their young children.

The idea is full of potential: a boy receives letters from each of his crayons expressing their discontent (for apparent various reaasons, but in reality it s always the same 2: too much use or not enough). I remember creating background stories for my coloring pens and pencils when I was a child, and they included a lot more options... At the end, the boy tries to please his crayons (laudable) by making a drawing with all of them, but I challenge anyone to find Grey (and poor peach is a stretch, too).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.

Absolutely great book I purchased on the recommendation of a friend who works in a library. I loved it the first 11 times I read it to nephews at bed time. Bought the sequel to avoid temporary insanity from re-reading the same book too many times in a short space of time. Seriously, these kids have a whole bookcase to choose from when they visit me, but no matter where I hid this book they still found it.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 Day the Crayons Quit is a fun and unique story of a box of crayons who write letters to Duncan as they are fed up with how they are being treated. I like how we got to see each of the crayons perspectives of what they believe they are stereotypically used for and I think this was all very familiar to the children. Having this shown in letters to Duncan from each of the colour crayons is a fun way to get their point across but it wasn't something all the children enjoyed and with some of the children being quite young I think it was too long and in some cases humour in which I think the younger children didn't understand which meant they lost interest. For the older children it was mostly enjoyed though and they loved seeing all of the illustrations that went along with the letters of a page of that specific colour which was great to see if they could recognise the colours before the letter was read to them. The characters in this book are just the crayons but I love how their personalities are based on the uses they have to children and ones that children will recognise. The children found peach to be particularly amusing and found that part of the story very funny and silly! The children loved the end of the book and seeing the fantastic picture created with the crayons but were also fascinated at the colour choices, I like that this showed them that we don't have to do the same as everyone else and that we can use our imagination and be different! Overall I think their opinion on this book was divided, the younger children weren't too keen but the older ones loved it. A great story regardless though and a brilliantly subtle way of helping children learn their colours!

I love this book so much I own it as a picture book and a board book! The letters from the crayons are sheer genius and will have you laughing out loud – they are exactly the letters I would expect if crayons could speak. So much so, it makes me forget crayons can’t talk! This is a book I know I will be re-reading for years to come.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!