The Crayons Book of Numbers by Drew Daywalt

The Crayons Book of Numbers Reviews

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  Jon Nakapalau

  LOST CRAYONS! Who can't remember the dread of this situation! Cute book that will appeal to children and bring a smile to adults.
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  Jocelin

  A cute addition in the "Crayon" library. An easy and fun read that incorporates using colors and numbers. A great way to introduce 2-4 year olds to the "Crayons". Some of the story is borrowed from the crayon series but, it is still a joy to read.
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  Beckie

  Crayons amd counting. This book was great for counting and color recognition and loved by both my 2 year old and 7 year old.
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  Heidi

  As the story opens, all of Duncan's crayons are missing from the box. The book takes the reader through counting the colors until they all return to the box. It's fun to see each crayon express feelings about what they are used to color or what they would like to be used for. I love the illustrations that Jeffers creates, they feel so childlike and friendly. And the variety of different things created gives parent and child lots of things to talk about as they read. This book would also make a fun way to introduce children to crayons and what they can be used for.
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  Ryan

  This crayon book I like. It's a simple counting book and the crayons give their two cents.
  
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  Jeimy

  Cute counting book. Although I’ve seen others that are better, this one brings the characters’ personalities to life.
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  Chrissie Sieber

  Currently the good night story we read ever night, it's cute, great for counting and naming the colours yet merciful short.
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  Maxwell Rae

  Just rehashing the content from the original story and turn a profit. Not worth a read.
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  Amanda Brooke

  The crayons maintain their characters
  
  This book might be more fun if you've read the other crayon books. I feel like coloring a pink dinosaur now.
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  Kim

  An incredibly fun, stereotype-defying, short read. The crayons of Jeffer's The Day The Crayons Quit are adapted to a unique take on the ubiquitous counting book genre. Numbers 1 to 10 each have a colour, though are not the colour, rather the next crayon in line (ie. there are not four pink crayons (I can't recall is pink appeared 4th) but accumulated crayons with each a new colour, totalling 10 by the end.) Jeffers never does anything conventionally and this remains true here. Each crayon has something to say about how it is used in colouring (eg. orange laments that yellow claims to be the colour of the sun, but orange insists that orange is the colour of the sun.) It's short as it's a 1-10 counting book.
  I put this at the top of my didactic learning picture book list, though, to be fair, it's not didactic. Counting, yes. Counting book formula? No way would Jeffers do that!
  A fun read for my 40 year old self as I drank coffee this morning.
  And three cheers for pink who wants to be used to colour a dinosaur!
  
  SORRY!!! Drew Dewalt wrote the text; Jeffers illustrated. My apologies. Leaving my errors in place and acknowledging my mistake. I need to look at Dewalt's bibliography now, as the illustrations were classic Jeffers; the text was Dewalt's and I loved it. More! More! More!
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  Heather

  Cute book that I will have to buy for my niece.
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  Kelly

  Neat little colors and counting board book.
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  Bianca Orellana

  Love this one for colors and numbers!
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  Jessica

  Brings a little color to the learning of counting
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  Becky B

  The Day the Crayons Quit is boiled down into a board book form with one short sentence from each crayon and a count of the total number of crayons met so far.
  
  I don't know why they didn't make a new storyline for this one. It is a great example of succinct summarizing if you are looking for an example of that for young writers. I can see a lot of people being disappointed they spent money on this if they already have The Day the Crayons Quit. I mean Jeffers didn't even make any new illustrations for this, they just cut illustrations from the original book. It's an ok counting book and really not a bad book. The two stars just represent the fact that I know Daywalt and Jeffers are wells of creativity so I'm kind of disappointed they didn't do something entirely new for this book.
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  Nickie

  This is the SAME illustrations as in the COLORS board book! That's such a ripoff. Also, there were 12 crayons in the original story and this book only counts 10 of them. Also, because the illustrations didn't change at all to distinguish this book from the other, counting is basically page numbers as a 1-1 tactile identifier is not displayed from page to page. IE, if the first crayon found is blue, it doesn't appear on the next page to help find "red". The very small child reading the board book is supposed to retain that this is now the second crayon they found.
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  Heydi Smith

  This book is great for fans of this crayon series, which I am. But as a stand alone book, I feel it was rushed and lacked depth. I know, I know...it’s a kids book. But the other books in this crayon series have so much story building and character development. I feel like this one was just pushed out to continue the series’ presence and not to enhance it.
  
  Still, a solid choice for a number storytime, if all your other good counting books are checked out.
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  Amanda Calegan

  This is a very simple read and can be used for a very young age when teaching numbers and even colors. The book discusses numbers but since it incorporates crayons you can also connect the color aspect to the table. This is part of a series and there is a separate book for colors but this is a fun way to do both. The book is full of all colors as well as what looks like children’s drawings imbedded in the pages. Overall I feel this is an introductory book for like pre-school.
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  Hannah Shelby

  This counting picture book by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers is an easy read for young kinds and helps them practice numbers. It could also be engaging if you have read “The Day the Crayons Quit” and the kind could recognize the same illustrations and story. This could also be a good book to prompt a coloring activity that goes along with your counting lesson. The reader is prompted to “find” all of Duncan crayons using counting.
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  Amanda

  I know there's a whole universe of these books but I am not really in love with this one. It does a good job of numbers. And the pink one is used to draw a dinosaur. Which is a++but I think I prefer the other one we have since a lot of the drawings are re-used. (Either this is the newer book or the one we have is newer; I'm not invested enough to ascertain which).
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  Joanna

  The illustrations are super cute, and I love me a counting book, so I had high hopes for this. Sadly, I really felt like each crayon had one crappy complaint and there was nothing more to it than that. Blue: “oh noes, it’s so hard being so popular” for example. Still, super illustrations, for real.
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  Rubi

  It was okay, I just....expected a liiiittle more creativity from a 'The Crayons' book. Thats just me. If we were going to "look" for the missing crayons, at the very least have the crayons hiding or something. Still recommend every other The Crayons books though. They are usually witty and funny, love them haha
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  Mama Bearian

  It’s ok. This one basically rehashes the complaint from each crayon in “The Day the Crayons Quit.” If you haven’t read that one, I don’t think it would quite work, and the age level that book is for is a bit above counting books - hence the 2 stars. Good premise, I just didn’t think it worked as is.