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The Day the Crayons Quit
The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt
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Crayons have feelings, too, in this funny back-to-school story illustrated by the creator of Stuck and This Moose Belongs to Me--now a #1 New York Times bestseller!Poor Duncan just wantsto color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing:His crayons have had enough! They quit!Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speakingeach believes he is the true color of the sun.What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?Kids will be imagining their own humorous conversations with crayons and coloring a blue streak after sharing laughs with Drew Daywalt and New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers. This story is perfectas a back-to-school gift, for all budding artists, for fans of humorous books such asDon't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith, and for fans of Oliver Jeffers'Stuck, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Lost and Found, and This Moose Belongs to Me.
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haleyperkins1

Well,poor Duncan just wanted to color.... and of course he wanted his crayons to be happy. And that gave him an idea.

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haleyperkins1

Each crayon writes a letter explaining why the quit their jobs and I thought each crayon has a funny reasoning behind it!

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haleyperkins1
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The days the crayons quit is a funny light hearted book about crayons quitting I think this could be a funny book to read with students!

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JenlovesJT47
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This book was so cute and creative. Happy to see there are more in the series! Jace really liked it. 5⭐️

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Suet624 Really fun books. 3mo
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Rachel044420
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Shows students that that crayons have feelings and that you should use all the color instead of just your favorite ones.

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The crayons are tired of being mistreated and misused. They quit until Duncan comes up with an idea

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Rachel044420

“it‘s not fair when you use me to draw a nice beach ball and then fill in the colors of the ball with ALL THE OTHER CRAYONS.”

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#SchoolSpirit Day 27: Essentially, this is an epistolary tale of #crayon(s) who had quite a number of complaints and concerns that they wished to raise to their owner, a young boy named Duncan. Hence, Duncan found a stack of letters when he opened his box of #crayon(s). My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j2m

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Chloeeberlein

“I'm tired of being called light brown crayon, or tanish, or whatever.“

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Chloeeberlein

This story encourages children to think outside of the box and use their creativity.

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Chloeeberlein
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(picture book) This book is a funny story about crayons explaining their feelings and the issues they face. This helps celebrate diversity and inclusion.

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ss291920

“Dear Duncan, I see a yellow crayon already talk to you, big whiner. Anyways, can you tell Mr. tattletale that he is not the color of the sun?”

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ss291920

This would be a great book to study letter structure with students. Since the majority of pages are written as letters, it would be fun to have students pick out different aspects they see on each page. This could also be used to study a different colors and identify them.

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Week 2: Picture Books! This book is so cute. I love how all the crayons have their own personalities. So entertaining to guess what each one will say. Great books! Published: June 27,2013.

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erinem

“of course he wanted his crayons to be happy”

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erinem

Kids in class would have a really fun time with this story!

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erinem
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This is a creative story about crayons that go on strike because they don't like how they are being used. This is a silly book that will have students laughing and can be used to teach lots of different lessons.

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limada
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Loved this. So cute. #19-2023

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Kboltz
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Moving is done and I can go back to reading…but first I have to start a library for Nora! This is a classic! Poor peach.

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emileescengie
Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt

“I HATE being used to draw the outline of things…”

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Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt
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Absolutely love the humor in this book. It is great for teaching children about color in a cool and different way. I read this with my kindergarteners and they LOVED IT! They thought it was hilarious

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oliviascrimo

E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers
June 27th, 2013
In this book the main character Duncan, comes to find a big stack of letters from his crayons. Throughout the book he reads each letter that each describe an emotion that they are feeling. At the end of the book, Duncan can create a picture with all crayons so that they all feel included.

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Gracehake

“Well poor Duncan just wanted to color. And of course he wanted his crayons to be happy, and that gave him an idea”

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Gracehake

This book teaches students about empathy and communicating their needs and feelings. This is great for younger aged children and the illustrations are color themed and set up as a letter style.

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Gracehake
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This is a book about a box of crayons that write letters to a boy named Duncan, going on strike because that are not particularly happy about how they are being used. Each color in the crayon box writes their own letter about how they are u satisfied with Duncan. He wanted his crayons to be happy so he decided in his next picture he would satisfy all of the crayons but creating a very colorful picture using all of them

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Hannahhh7
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The Day the Crayons Quit is one of my favorite children's books. It is a fiction book written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. It is about a box of crayons that write letters to their owner Duncan. They have had enough and they quit. The each write a letter and share their reasons. This book was published in 2013. It has won many awards including the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, and Amazon and Goodread's 2013 best picture book.

Hannahhh7 It has also won Barne's and Nobles best book of 2013 and is one of TIME Magazine's top 100 Children's Books of All Time. 2y
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Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt
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Description: This is a story about all the different crayons in a crayon box writing to the child that owns them. Each color is writing a persuasive letter to the owner about something that has been on their mind. These things include, being used too much, not being used enough, and even being used to color things they do not want to color! It is a fun and entertaining read aloud story with a lot of personality!
Author: Drew Daywalt

clairebourq_2023 Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Genre: Children's Lit & Fiction
Publication: June 27, 2013
Award: E.B White Read Aloud
Reason for Award: Embodies the universal read aloud standards that the author E.B White created.
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Mboyd28

If you don‘t start coloring inside the lines soon..I‘m going to completely lose it.

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Mboyd28

At the end of the story there is a picture of all the crayons being used the way they wanted to be used which is one of my favorite parts in the story.

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Mboyd28
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The Day the Crayons Quit is a hilarious story that my students absolutely adore. The story follows a frustrated box of crayons. The crayons do not like how their owner, a boy named Duncan, has been using them. Each crayon gives a different reason for why they must quit.

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Hcecrle

“The Day the Crayons Quit“ is a cute imaginative story about a child's crayons. Each crayon writes him a letter from their point of view expressing their feelings and emotions about how they are being used. Some letters are funny, and some are sad, but this would be perfect for a lower-grade classroom. This story won an E.B. White Award.

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Published in 2013
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sarahyurco
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Published: 2013
This story takes on a humorous tone as a young boy named Duncan finds that each color in the crayon box has written him a letter. The crayons each explain that they will be going on strike because they do not like the way they are being used. This makes Duncan use his imagination to solve this problem and use colors in a whole new way.
Award: E.B. White Read Aloud Award

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MaddieBrown3
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Date Read: 9-14-22
Name of Award (if applicable): E. B. White Read Aloud
Purpose of Award (if applicable): terrific books to read aloud
Title of Book : The Day The Crayons Quit
Author of Book: Drew Daywalt
Illustrator (if applicable): Oliver Jeffers
Date of Publication: June 27, 2013

MaddieBrown3 Genre: Fiction
Brief Summary: Each crayon writes Duncan to voice their concerns. The crayons talk about being tired and frustrated. This could be used for letter writing or color help for students. This was used with a very cool app called NovelEffect. This matched the book perfectly.
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maggiedesantis

Summary: The book tells the story of Duncan whose crayons write him letters on why they are quitting.
Awards won: E.B. White Read Aloud Award
Purpose of Award: Books are nominated for their universal appeal as “terrific“ books to read aloud
Author: Drew Daywalt
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Date of publication: 2013
Genre: Picture book, fiction

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kallikramer
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Published in 2013. The Day the Crayons Quit is about a crayon box that writes letters to their owner telling him they want to be used more. Each crayon comes up with arguments about why they should be used. In the end the owner uses every crayon in one coloring photo and gets an A+ from the teacher. I would love to use this book in my classroom because it is super funny and could be used to teach a lesson about working together.

kallikramer This is a fiction book that won the E.B. White Read Aloud. 2y
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Jordan1201
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The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers was published in 2013. This book won the E.B White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers. This book is a fictional story and is about a boy who gets letters from crayons saying he uses them too much or not enough. At the end he makes a beautiful picture uses all of the colored crayons.

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channingfortney
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This book went through all of the crayons and they each explained how they were tired of just being used to draw the same thing and then never to be used again. They wrote notes to the owner of the crayons and eventually at the end of the book he realized he should use them for all sorts of things not just their specific color! This book won the E.B. White Read Aloud award

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elijahwilliams

Author: Drew Daywalt
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Published: 2013
Award: E.B. White Read Aloud Award
Genre: Children's Literature

The crayons are writing Duncan, the owner of the crayons, about how they feels based on how much he has used them during the past year to create his drawings. This book does a create job bring the crayons to life and expressing themselves and their individual relationships with Duncan.

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loganhiller

This book is about a boy's crayons in his crayon box. All the different crayons have issues with the boy whether it be being overworked, or forgotten. Great light-hearted read-aloud.

E.B. White read aloud award winner.