The Day the Crayons Quit (2013)

I've read this book dozens of times this year, acquiescing to the vocal demands of my two-year-old nephew on FaceTime. A touch of gender essentialism spoils it a bit for me, but the illustrations are nice and it seems to be very very popular with the demographic audience. ( )

The art was absolutely charming and the story funny, but I hesitate to read aloud to kids. Call me overly sensitive, but my 3 year old repeats EVERYTHING I say and I don't like the idea of introducing so much repetition of such negativity! The crayons are airing their grievances but they are just so whiny while they're doing it.
That being said, I really liked the different personalities of each crayon and the ending (while abrupt) was satisfying. ( )

Library thing predicted I wouldn't like this book and it was right. (I checked after I read it out of curiosity.) Cute illustrations and I like the concept with the letters but very whiny. ( )

While the story is cute, it’s the illustrations that really make this children’s picture book fun. Read my full review here. ( )

This is a great children's book about feelings. This book goes through the points of view of the crayons in Duncan's crayon box. The crayons go through the story telling Duncan what they want and say that they quit. Duncan needs to come up with a solution to get them all back. This would be a cute read aloud. I thought they pages were interesting to read because each crayon had a different hand writing which made them come to life a little bit more. This story could be used in an ELAR classroom when making connections through characters or to identify the different types of figurative language. ( )