A Great Children's Book

The Book is called The Day the Crayons came Home written by Drew Daywalt. There is no information about the author in this book which caught me by surprise. The cover of this book is a green crayon with a nap stack running over some cover of a book. This book was 35 pages so a good amount for a kids book. The characters in this book are Duncan who is the main characters and his different colored crayons. The settings change throughout the book because each crayon has a different story that they tell to Duncan in a letter of where they are. There’s a crayon on the beach one skiing down a mountain one just in the city they are everywhere. Basically Duncan is a kid growing older so he’s disregarding his crayons more and in response they leave and send him letters of what they are doing. Duncan realizes he misses them a lot and wants them to come back saying he shouldn’t of left them. They do come back and so he makes them a house with a place for each crayon. This book doesn’t rhyme, have animals as characters, have monsters or creatures, have adults as characters, have a lovely tone, have lots of words a page, or have one phrase repeated. What it does have is it teaches a lesson, have kids as characters, humor, illustrations, color, and actual photos. My favorite line from the book is “He built a place where each crayon would always feel at home”. I feel like this book is good for 4-8 year olds as it’s a book for starting out and kids really like crayons at that age. I would of liked this book as a kid because I really did like crayons so I would of enjoyed this.