The Number One New York Times Bestseller!Debut author Drew Daywalt and international bestseller Oliver Jeffers team up to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.Poor Duncan just wants to colour in. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown, Blue needs a break from colouring in all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other.The battle lines have been drawn. What is Duncan to do?
Product Details
Title:
The Day The Crayons Quit Daywalt Drew and Jeffers Oliver
Author:
Drew Daywalt
Publisher:
HARPER UK
ISBN:
9780008167929
SKU:
BK0470764
EAN:
9780008167820
Number Of Pages:
34
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
Reading age :
Customer suggested age: 3 - 6 years
Release date:
25 February 2016
About Author
Oliver Jeffers is an artist, illustrator and writer from Northern Ireland. From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and award winning picture-books, Oliver Jeffers practice takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Brooklyn Museum New York. HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his picture books, now translated into over 36 languages, including The Incredible Book Eating Boy, and the New York Times Bestseller This Moose Belongs to Me and #1 New York Times Bestseller The Day The Crayons Quit. Oliver won an Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with artist and filmmaker Mac Premo. He has made art for Newsweek, The New York Times, United Airlines, TED, Nintendo, and has illustrated a a number of novels. In 2007, Jeffers was the official illustrator for World Book Day. Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London based Studio AKA, screening on Christmas Eve 2008 on Channel 4 in the UK and on Nickelodeon in the US and Australia. In 2013, Jeffers illustrated the vinyl cover (a drawing of Nelson Mandela) for the U2 song "Ordinary Love". Jeffers also co-directed (with Mac Premo) the video for the U2 song "Ordinary Love". Oliver grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. See more at www.oliverjeffers.com, or visit his instagram, facebook, and twitter @oliverjeffers Drew Daywalt grew up in Ohio, where his mother read stories to him every night after she got off work as a nurse at the local hospital. Today he reads to his own children in California. And when he's not spending time with family, Drew writes smart little stories for smart little people.
