The Day the Crayons Quit

This book is adorable! All the crayons have objections to how they're being used or problems they're experiencing. Even the popular colors are exhausted and worn out. They write letters to Duncan to express their displeasure and submit examples of what they have to say. In the end there's a beautiful resolution. 

Fun book I hope I get to read aloud to a group. There would be sooo many activities to build around this story, even STEAM (what are colors, how crayons are made, or just making art). I've wanted to make mixed color crayons forever. This may be a perfect tie-in: Mixed, melted crayons.

And Oliver Jeffers is one of my favorite Illustrators. Other art examples:

(The Incredible Book Eating Boy)

Here are links with some ideas for The Day the Crayons Quit:

 http://www.rif.org/documents/us/The-Day-the-Crayons-Quit and:

http://www.penguin.com/static/images/yr/pdf/CrayonsGuide.pdf