All to often we take the people we rely on the most for granted. It is a natural reaction to have, and yet this does not make it a good one. We need to be grateful for our loved ones. We also need to treasure the things that give us joy; things like our musical instruments, our sports equipment, and our beloved art supplies.
In this book a group of crayons decide that enough is enough and they tell the boy they belong to that his neglect of them is really upsetting and quite unacceptable.
The day the crayons came home
In this book a group of crayons decide that enough is enough and they tell the boy they belong to that his neglect of them is really upsetting and quite unacceptable.
The day the crayons came home
Drew Daywalt
Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Penguin, 2015, 978-0-399-17275-5
One day Duncan and his crayons are enjoying a nice
coloring session when Duncan gets a very odd packet of postcards in the mail.
It turns out that the cards all come from crayons which, for one reason or
another, are no longer in residence in Duncan’s room.
Maroon Crayon is
downstairs, neglected and broken and wants to come home. Pea Green Crayon has
changed his name and is running away. Neon Red Crayon was left behind during a
family vacation and announces that, since Duncan has not seen fit to retrieve
him, he will be walking home. Yellow and Orange are in the garden, melted
together by the sun. One of the brown crayons was eaten by the dog and then
“puked up on the rug.” He is downstairs on the rug and wants to be rescued.
Glow in the Dark Crayon is in the basement.
The rest of the
stories of crayon woe are just too painful to go into further. Suffice it to
say that Duncan has a very large collection of postcards from his very unhappy
crayons and he feels very bad about his poor neglected friends who really did
not deserve being ill-used in such a dreadful way.
In this book children
will have a wonderful time reading the postcards that the crayons in the story send
to their owner. They may even wonder what kinds of postcards their crayons,
markers and colors would send them if they could. Would their art supplies give
them a hard time too?
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