Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers teamed up in ‘The day the crayons quit’ to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis in a playful, imaginative story that had both children and adults laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.
Poor Duncan just wants to colour in. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit! Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown, Blue needs a break from colouring in all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other. The battle lines have been drawn.
What is Duncan to do?
Time passes and we ask ourselves, could these guys repeat the trick and provide us with a witty sequel?
Along came ‘The day the crayons came home’. This time the crayons are back and they're crosser than ever! One day Duncan receives a set of postcards from his crayons who have been lost, forgotten, broken - even melted in a clothes dryer and stuck to a pair of underpants! There are recurring postcards from
Pea Green (aka Esteban), who dreams of traveling, and clueless directionally challenged Neon Red crayon who is trying to get home.
So in the end, both books have a hilarious text and joyful illustrations that combine to show that crayons have feelings too.
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