* “These memorable personalities will leave readers glancing apprehensively at their own crayon boxes.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review * “This colorful title should make for an uproarious storytime.” –School Library Journal, starred review “This book will have children asking to have it read again and again.” –Library Media Connection “Fresh and funny.” –The Wall Street Journal Move over, Click, Clack, Moo we’ve got a new contender for the most successful picture-book strike.” –BCCB, starred review One of TIME Magazine’s top 100 Children’s Books of All Time. Goodreads’ 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year White Read-Aloud AwardĪmazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year Winner of over 60 national and international awards, including the coveted E.B. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking-each believes he is the true color of the sun. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water.
Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. In addition to illustrating his own writing, Jeffers has illustrated many books by other authors, most notably Drew Daywalt’s bestselling Crayons series.The hilarious, colorful #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon that every kid wants! Gift a copy to someone you love today. Jeffers has also crafted a number of standalone picture books, such as The Heart and the Bottle (2010), Stuck (2011), The Fate of Fausto (2019) and There’s a Ghost in this House (2021) as well as producing Here We Are (2017), What We’ll Build (2020) and Meanwhile Back on Earth (2022) which provide beautiful visual guides to growing up in a diverse and fascinating world. Two more stories in the series- The Way Back Home and Up and Down – were published in 20 respectively. Lost and Found won both the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award and made Jeffers name. This was the first picture book in the Boy series and was swiftly followed by Lost and Found, a heartwarming story in which the Boy discovers a lost penguin and attempts to return it to its home. It is as an author-illustrator of children’s picture books that he is best known, however, producing his debut, How to Catch a Star in 2004. Born in Western Australia but growing up in Belfast and now resident in Brooklyn, Jeffers is a visual artist who has worked in various media, from figurative painting to sculpture and performance.
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