The Day the Crayons Quit | 
pickThis is a fun book that I know from experience is entertaining for kids. They love the thought of their crayons coming to life and the use of personification is very fun. It gives a good lesson on perspective which I also really like.
Published 2013
Speculative fiction
Well,poor Duncan just wanted to color.... and of course he wanted his crayons to be happy. And that gave him an idea.
Each crayon writes a letter explaining why the quit their jobs and I thought each crayon has a funny reasoning behind it!
pickThe 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!
pickThis book was so cute and creative. Happy to see there are more in the series! Jace really liked it. 5⭐️
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pickShows students that that crayons have feelings and that you should use all the color instead of just your favorite ones.
The crayons are tired of being mistreated and misused. They quit until Duncan comes up with an idea
“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.”
pick#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
“I'm tired of being called light brown crayon, or tanish, or whatever.“
This story encourages children to think outside of the box and use their creativity.
pick(picture book) This book is a funny story about crayons explaining their feelings and the issues they face. This helps celebrate diversity and inclusion.
“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?”
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.
pickWeek 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.
pickMoving 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.
pickAbsolutely 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
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.
“Well poor Duncan just wanted to color. And of course he wanted his crayons to be happy, and that gave him an idea”
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.
pickThis 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
pickThe 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.
pickDescription: 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
If you don‘t start coloring inside the lines soon..I‘m going to completely lose it.
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.
pickThe 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.
“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.
pickPublished: 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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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
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
pickPublished 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.
pickThe 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.
pickThis 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
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.
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.
