Love from the Crayons

by Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)

Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• The hilarious Crayons from The Day the Crayons Quit are ready to celebrate love! This mini hardcover book is perfect for sharing with that special someone any day of the year.

Love is yellow and orange. Because love is sunny and warm.
Love is purple. Because it’s okay to love outside the lines.

This charming ode to love, in all its bright colors and subtle shades, features the whole crew from The Day the Crayons Quit. Perfect for fans of the Crayons, young and old—and everyone who loves them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524792688
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	12/24/2019
Series:	Drew Daywalt's Crayons Book Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 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. Follow Drew at @DrewDaywalt.

Oliver Jeffers is a creator of art for adults and children. An illustrator of fine art, his picture books have received numerous awards and much critical aclaim. The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home were both #1 New York Times bestsellers. Oliver has has become one of the world's most in-demand artists, creating pieces and graphics for TED talks, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and for U2's lyric video to the song "Ordinary Love." You can find Oliver at www.oliverjeffers.com

Editorial Reviews

2021-02-02
Daywalt and Jeffers’ wandering crayons explore love.

Each double-page spread offers readers a vision of one of the anthropomorphic crayons on the left along with the statement “Love is [color].” The word love is represented by a small heart in the appropriate color. Opposite, childlike crayon drawings explain how that color represents love. So, readers learn, “love is green. / Because love is helpful.” The accompanying crayon drawing depicts two alligators, one holding a recycling bin and the other tossing a plastic cup into it, offering readers two ways of understanding green. Some statements are thought-provoking: “Love is white. / Because sometimes love is hard to see,” reaches beyond the immediate image of a cat’s yellow eyes, pink nose, and black mouth and whiskers, its white face and body indistinguishable from the paper it’s drawn on, to prompt real questions. “Love is brown. / Because sometimes love stinks,” on the other hand, depicted by a brown bear standing next to a brown, squiggly turd, may provoke giggles but is fundamentally a cheap laugh. Some of the color assignments have a distinctly arbitrary feel: Why is purple associated with the imagination and pink with silliness? Fans of The Day the Crayons Quit (2013) hoping for more clever, metaliterary fun will be disappointed by this rather syrupy read.

As ephemeral as a valentine. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews