By Drew Daywalt
A boy opens his crayon box to find a stack of letters — every color has quit, and every one has a complaint.
Duncan just wants to color, but when he opens his box he finds a pile of letters instead of crayons. Red is exhausted from all the fire trucks and Santas. Beige is sick of being second best to Brown. Pink feels ignored, Black is tired of only ever being an outline, and White feels like it does nothing at all. One by one, each crayon has quit, and each one makes its case. Your child gets to hear every color's side and figure out how Duncan can possibly make them all happy again.
It takes the most ordinary thing in the house, a box of crayons, and gives every color a personality and a grievance, so a child never looks at their own crayons quite the same way after. The complaints are funny because they're weirdly fair — of course Gray is tired of coloring enormous elephants. And Oliver Jeffers draws the whole thing in real crayon, so the pictures look exactly like something your child could have made, which pulls them right in.