The Day the Crayons Quit
Author: Drew Daywalt
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Penguin Young Readers Group
Copyright 2013
17 pages
Picture books

I chose this book because it seemed like an interesting way to introduce colors. In the story, Duncan goes to get his crayons because he wants to color. In their place, he finds a stack of letters. The letters are written by his crayons telling them why they are not happy. In the end Duncan finds a way to make all of the crayons happy.

The medium used for the illustrations, and appropriately so, are crayons! The illustrations look to have been done by a child. The use of colors and blank space gave them a child like feel. I thought the illustrations brought the colors to life and made them into characters with attitudes in the story. I loved it!

This book would be appropriate for younger grades. I think that this book would be a great way to introduce colors. It has so many examples for each color so that students would be able to relate certain objects to certain colors. This book could also be used to talk about favorite colors and colors around them. I think that this book would be a neat one to use to make a class book and have the kids use all of the different colors to make their own illustrations. This book does not have any awards.