Happy Easter from the Crayons

by Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers and all our favorite crayons are back for some Easter excitement. Happy Easter from The Crayons belongs in every Easter basket.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• Celebrate Easter with a hilarious holiday adventure starring the Crayons from The Day the Crayons Quit—a mini hardcover book perfectly sized for Easter baskets!

Red Crayon decorates a circle.
Blue Crayon decorates a rhombus.
Purple Crayon is super confused.

Easter is the perfect holiday for the Crayons! They get to learn new shapes and decorate one giant egg together…but where will they hide it?! Blue Crayon has some ideas… Ideal for sharing during the Easter season, this story is sure to make kids—and grown-ups—giggle as they celebrate together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593621059
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/07/2023
Series:	Drew Daywalt's Crayons Book Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD320L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Drew Daywalt grew up in a haunted house, but now lives in a Southern California home haunted only by his wife, two kids, and a German shepherd. A Hollywood screenwriter when he is not writing for young readers, Drew's favorite crayon is Black. He is the #1 bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home, in addition to many other titles. Follow Drew at @DrewDaywalt.

Oliver Jeffers makes art and tells stories. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found, which was the recipient of the prestigious Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in the UK and was later adapted into an award-winning animated film; and the New York Times bestsellers Here We Are, What We'll Build, Stuck, This Moose Belongs to Me, and Once Upon an Alphabet. He is also, of course, the illustrator of the #1 smash hit Crayons series, written by Drew Daywalt. His fine art is world-renowned and his dip-art exhibitions are much sought-after events. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oliver now splits his time between Belfast and Brooklyn, New York. You can visit Oliver Jeffers online at OliverJeffers.com or follow him on Instagram @OliverJeffers.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Happy Easter from the Crayons:

“Esteban (the green crayon that seems to prefer going by a different name) and the stubby blue crayon are highly entertaining, laugh-out-loud standouts.” –School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2022-10-12
The Crayons return to celebrate Easter.

Six crayons (Red, Orange, Yellow, Esteban, who is green and wears a yellow cape, White, and Blue) each take a shape and scribble designs on it. Purple, perplexed and almost angry, keeps asking why no one is creating an egg, but the six friends have a great idea. They take the circle decorated with red shapes, the square adorned with orange squiggles “the color of the sun,” the triangle with yellow designs, also “the color of the sun” (a bit repetitious), a rectangle with green wavy lines, a white star, about which Purple remarks: “DID you even color it?” and a rhombus covered with blue markings and slap the shapes onto a big, light-brown egg. Then the conversation turns to hiding the large object in plain sight. The joke doesn’t really work, the shapes are not clear enough for a concept book, and though colors are delineated, it’s not a very original color book. There’s a bit of clever repartee. When Purple observe that Esteban’s green rectangle isn’t an egg, Esteban responds, “No, but MY GOSH LOOK how magnificent it is!” Still, that won’t save this lackluster book, which barely scratches the surface of Easter, whether secular or religious. The multimedia illustrations, done in the same style as the other series entries, are always fun, but perhaps it’s time to retire these anthropomorphic coloring implements. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Let these crayons go back into their box. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews