The Day the Crayons Came Home

An amazing book. Great story and pictures! Kids will love it!!

Drew Daywalt does it again! His latest book “The Day the Crayons Came Home” once more features Duncan and his very unusual, very verbose crayons. Humorous postcards, written by different, individual colors of crayon, will have you laughing aloud at their complaints, misadventures, and revelations. (Be sure to note the postcard’s description – when shown.) Since they are traveling a long distance to reach home or need assistance to leave, several of the crayons do send multiple postcards. With the exception of yellow and orange crayons, the colors in this book are different from those in the previous “The Day the Crayons Quit”. The humor in the postcard’s written text may be gentle, snarky, or it may be making a point about the featured crayon’s feelings. Every postcard is funny and fun to read. Oliver Jeffers’ illustrations – childlike crayon drawings and lettering – add significantly to the book’s appeal and highlight the dilemmas faced by each color. Younger readers may find the child-like lettering a bit difficult to decipher. On the other hand, they may be able to assist adult readers who are having difficulty reading the childlike printing. One of my favorite things about Drew Daywalt’s two books is that the crayons reflect both readers’ and listeners’ emotions. Duncan’s crayons do have very human feelings and reactions to the events in their lives. Those in “The Day the Crayons Quit” are more representative of adults and their workplace attitudes. In “The Day the Crayons Came Home”, the crayons express feelings that are more familiar to children – feeling forgotten, disliking their own name and wanting to change it, needing help to run away from home. “The Day the Crayons Quit” is one of my grandson’s favorite bedtime books. I am sure that “The Day the Crayons Came Home” will be, too. It is a fun-filled, funny book. It will engage and entertain both young readers and adults. I recommend you add this wonderful, imaginative book to your library.

Book arrived with good packaging and in good condition. The book itself was funny and entertaining for my 7y/o.

This is an interesting series. Can be used as pure story telling with young children or with any age group for discussion: social issues, story quality, artwork. Can be a spinoff for creative writing coupled with any creative artistic visual. So many interesting possibilities!!

I already have this book. I ordered it by mistake. All of the crayon books are wonderful. I need to return the day the Crayons Came Home.

Kids love it

I love the first book so much, but the second book was just okay. It's a good book, but I am indifferent - could do with it or without it. My students loved the first one and were engaged throughout but this one was a little more difficult to follow and drug on and on.

The crayon books got to love these books

Si vous avez aimé The Day the Crayons Quit, forcément vous apprécierez le spin off, qui ouvre bien des perspectives...

A very good sequel to the first book

Love it but there are some page hard to read because of the color

Mio figlio di 5 anni e mezzo adora questo libro. Lo leggo e lo rileggo tutte le sere. Ha anche preso ispirazione per disegnere quando abbiamo acquistato il primo libro. Lo consiglio. La storia e belissima i bambini piccoli imparano i colori mentre quelli piu grandicelli possono usare il libro per imparare a disegnare oltre che asoltare simpatiche storie di come sono stati trattati i colori..

Q mi hija se 6 años le encanta