Love from the Crayons

Crayons

by Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)

Celebrate love with the New York Times Best-Selling Crayons! This charming title featuring everyone's favorite coloring crew is the perfect gift for that special someone any day of the year.Love is yellow and orange. Because love is sunny and warm. Love is purple. Because it's okay to love outside the lines. This special gift book, featuring all the The Crayons from The Day the Crayons Quit, explores the bright colors and subtle shades of love. This is a must-have for fans of The Crayons, and the perfect gift for that special someone.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Love, Fiction, Holiday, Emotion, Art

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 24, 2019

About the author

Ever since his childhood in one of Ohio’s most haunted houses, writer director Drew Daywalt has been writing escapist fantasy and building worlds of his own. With a degree in Creative Writing, and a concentration in Children’s Literature from Emerson College in Boston, Daywalt set off to Hollywood where he spent years writing for Disney and Universal on such beloved shows as Timon & Pumba, Buzz Lightyear, and Woody Woodpecker, and where his animated series The Wacky World of Tex Avery garnered an Emmy nomination.

His first trip into live action landed him studio screenwriting and feature film directing work with such Hollywood luminaries as Quentin Tarrantino, Lawrence Bender, Tony Scott, Brett Ratner and Jerry Bruckheimer.

With an eye toward picture book writing, Daywalt’s first book THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller’s List in June 2013, and has since become a Number One Best Seller.

Reviews

[Debbie W. · Rating 4 out of 5]

More whimsical than humorous, this is a true love story to you from all the colours in your crayon box! A great book to read not just on Valentine's Day, but any day!

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, sweet, and to the point. This will make kiddos giggle and one that parents will read multiple times in one sitting. The repetitiveness will be useful for early readers. A fun return of the crayons that children will love!

[Yusra ❥]

I know it's a bit silly to add this to my Goodreads HOWEVER and stick with me here. I recently decided I wanted to become a primary school teacher librarian and upon this revelation I found myself in a primary library working under the actual, hey, librarian (that's probably the most times librarian has been used in a sentence lol). Anyways she had places to be and I found myself alone in the library as a Kindergarten class entered. This is probably the first time in my life I've been the only adult in a room and all the kids looked at me expectantly cause duh I was wearing a lanyard. I picked up a random book (I'm sure you'll never guess which one) and read it to them till a proper adult entered the premises and took over.

I don't think I have the words to describe the way I felt my heart glow when I read this story to them, the constant side tangents we went on, it all just felt perfect. So even though it feels like cheating I want to add this book and have the days I read it be logged on so my nostalgic self will never forget <3

[Daughter of Paper and Stone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Preface

Cute and a little small. Nothing overwhelmingly different, but I believe a toddler or even a young kid would love it.

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RATINGS:

Plot : 1 📚 Dust in the wind.

(It is not about plot thought, it is about cuteness).

World Building(Immersion): 1 🌎 Dipped my toes.

Angst : ❎ No angst.

Funniness: ❎ No funny moments.

Scariness: ❎ Not scary.

Goriness: ❎ No gore.

Sadness: ❎ No sadness.

Overall star rating : 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great overall enjoyment

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[Madison · Rating 4 out of 5]

From the creators of The Day The Crayons Quit and The Day The Crayons Came Home, comes a new title that features the same band of loveable crayons with a simple story about love.

Love From The Crayons is not as detailed or complex a story as the first two books. Rather, it is a simple book, with one line of text per page that follows the same pattern “Love is brown...because sometimes love stinks”, starring the ironic crayons and matching crayon drawings.

It’s a great book for young fans of the other two books, as a seasonal gift perfect for Valentine’s Day or for adding to collections about love or feelings. While the book acknowledges the range of positive and negative emotions in love, it doesn’t go into why love is sometimes orange and yellow, sunny and warm or is sometimes brown, black or blue. Leaving further elaboration to readers, the drawings also don’t delve deeper than providing an illustration for the colours— black a colourless rainbow, or orange and yellow as the sun.

Love From The Crayons is sure to delight fans of the original two books, or maybe encourage new readers to explore all the fantastic stories about the colourful crayons.

The publishers provided an advanced readers copy of this book for reviewing purposes. All opinions are my own.

Find more reviews, reading age guides, content advisory, and recommendations on my blog Madison's Library

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nope, nope, nope. Ok first of all why is brown about poop and love stinking? Also I did not like the black one either about love not always being bright and colorful. They could have said something like "Love is black like a starless night. You can't always see it but it's always there." Why are we teaching children that love isn't a good thing? If it stinks or isn't colorful, then it seems to me like it's not actually love.

[Mary N · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was excited to come across a new book for Valentine's Day toddler story time, only to get disappointed when I see the pages of the colors brown and black and they are - at this day and age - still shown associated with negative feelings... :(

[Brionne Gabis moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 yo rave review

From my 5 yo reader - it is so colorful and it is so great because it is about love.

[Holly Letson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love is Love.

Such a beautiful story.

[Harlow · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the crayons!

[Angela Hull · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay I seriously just read this because it was short and it counted towards my reading goal. Plus I haven’t finished a book in two weeks

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

5/15/2024 - Cute, but some of the love examples could have been a little more sensitive. I don’t want my daughter telling a child with brown skin that they stink.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't think that today my mind would be blown by a picture book about crayons. Yet here I am, emotionally moved by these simple messages about the many forms of crayon affection. Starting with a traditional red heart "Love comes in all shapes and sizes" to a charming "sunny and warm" there is quite the gamut depicted.

Recommended for children, adults, and more.

[Shari (Shira) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cashing in on the success of THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT. This one is a mediocre read aloud for Valentine’s Day.

[Tiffanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

What they did to brown is just wrong...

[Shaye Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this very short book, each page shares both positive and negative actions, feelings, or metaphors that are associated with a specific color of love. It’s a tiny package, but could be nicely used as a mentor text. The book doesn’t share specifically how the artwork was created, but it appears crayons were definitely involved. :)

For more children's literature, middle grade literature, and YA literature reviews, feel free to visit my personal blog at The Miller Memo!

[Christina Reid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect for fans of The Day The Crayons Quit, this is a really cute little book about how love comes in lots of different colours. Some of them were really sweet, while others made me say 'huh?' as I wasn't really sure of the connection between the colour and what it stood for.
Perfect to get for someone special instead of a Valentine's Day Card!

[Panda Incognito · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the lines are cute; some of them don't make sense. Either way, it's an innocuous tribute to love that cashes in on the success of the Crayons series.

[Citlalli Canete]

This book is about the crayons writing a letter to the owner. Each crayons are telling the owner how there are some crayons that are being overused and others being underused. All the crayons want is to get an equal amount of coloring on the paper. This can be used in class as a fun activity like see how many color crayons do you use normally.

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet Love

The the crayons are showing their love now. My students always like the Peach crayon the best. A sweet book kids will love. Ahh love!

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love is explained by the crayons from the crayon box. Love is all the colors one can think of.

[Tara Engel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Relevant for all ages!

[Inger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Een lief boek om cadeau te doen.

[Bookish Devil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Upon finishing the book, I checked out the author's Goodreads profile and apparently, 'Love from the Crayons' is pretty much a bonus installment to an ongoing series that is centered around the crayons. This title is a perfect gift material that could be conferred to your dear one on the V-day or any day of the year. It explores the different hues of love and it left a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart as I flipped the final page.

[Shaneka Taylor]

Text-to Teaching Connection: This book depicts love and how love comes in different shapes and colors! We all love, and we love differently, and that's ok. For a class activity, students will receive a handout, for each color, students will make their own book with examples. It can be used to remember the story's details or with each color or generate new ideas. This will be fun to see a similarity or difference things children love using the same colors!

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Different colored crayons represent different aspects of love.

I was a little disappointed that the brown crayon got “Love stinks,” accompanied by a drawing of poop. None of the other colors represented something solely negative. Brown could be earthy or messy as in muddy or bittersweet as in chocolate or warm and fuzzy as in bear fur.

Update 2023: In the newer edition, love is brown because “love is as sweet as chocolate.”

[Erin Decker · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reused illustrations from The Day the Crayons quit with minimal text and no storyline like the other books. Very disappointed. This seems like a money grab from the publisher with not a lot of thought having to be thrown into this. Waste of $10. Buy the originals and leave it at that.

[Liesl · Rating 2 out of 5]

A blatant cash grab with a tenuous tie to Valentine's Day. Very disappointing.

[kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

eh, fine

[Liselotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not really what I thought it would be, but it's adorable! I can't wait to take it to my school and read it to my 5-6 y/os. Their review will follow.