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Drew Daywalt (born January 5, 1970), is an American author and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the best-selling children's picture bookThe Day the Crayons Quit, and its sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home, both illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. Daywalt is also known for writing scripts for American television and Hollywood studio films, and for creating a number of short horror films for release on the internet.
Early life
Drew Daywalt was born in Hudson, Ohio, on January 5, 1970, the youngest of six children, to Charlene (née Bable) and Charles Daywalt. "I grew up in a house in Hudson, Ohio, that was notoriously haunted. It looked like 'The Munsters.'" The house had a storied reputation in the local area, having supposedly been a stagecoach stop, a ..., and a respite on the Underground Railroad at various times.
Daywalt's older brothers, however unintentionally, fostered his interest
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The Day the Crayons Quit
LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Award-winning Oliver Jeffers and Drew Daywalt’s highly-entertaining book fryst vatten now available in board book struktur. Colouring will never be the same again! When Duncan goes to take out his crayons one day he finds a stack of letters inre. Every crayon has something to säga. The red crayon complains he fryst vatten used too much – too many things such as fire engines and strawberries are red; the purple crayon is a neat minded soul and hates it that so much of Duncan’s drawing goes outside the lines; the black crayon hates just to be used for outlines – and so on! Saddest of all, the peach crayon has lost his wrapping – how can he come out of the box naked? In an attempt to satisfy them all, Duncan does a final drawing. Overall, a brilliant book for every age to enjoy.
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Author Drew Daywalt Writes New Picture Book for CHLA Library
Drew Daywalt gave Kyle Horne, MPH, CNP, his best elevator pitch:
“I told Kyle, every kid knows juice boxes,” says Daywalt, an acclaimed children’s book author. “We all lived on them. What if one got scrunched? He gets squeezed too hard and his straw gets tweaked and broken. He has to go into the hospital for long-term care because it's going to take a while to fix all his stuff.”
Daywalt’s proposition was in response to a request from Horne, Manager of Literally Healing, the literacy program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which provides free daily books to hospitalized patients. Horne had found a hole in the program’s Therapeutic Library, a set of shelves in the CHLA Reading Room dedicated to books that explain to children the scarier aspects of being an inpatient. The library lacked a story about kids who have to stay in the hospital long-term.
“Most hospital books are like, you break an arm, you go to the hos