Jasper is only a little creeped out until the crayon changes his art-the one area where Jasper excels-into something better. When he faces a math quiz after skipping his homework, the crayon aces it for him. When Jasper watches TV instead of studying, he misspells every word on his spelling test, but the crayon seems to know the answers, and when he uses the crayon to write, he can spell them all.
Jasper is flunking everything except art and is desperate for help when he finds the crayon. Īccording to Publishers Weekly, Creepy Crayon! was the most sold picture book in the week of September 5, 2022, surpassing The Very Hungry Caterpillar.When a young rabbit who’s struggling in school finds a helpful crayon, everything is suddenly perfect-until it isn’t. In their review for The Booklist, John Peters commented how the authors took " Harold and the Purple Crayon into the twilight zone." Peters called some of Brown's scenes "atmospherically shadowy" and noted young readers "will respond sympathetically to Jasper's sad expression" throughout his ordeal.
Kirkus Reviews compared Reynold's writing to Rod Serling's monologues due to "its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor." They also praised Brown's illustration, who used a grayscale tone except for the crayon, calling this choice a callback to the old sci-fi thrillers, as well as an introduction to the horror genre for new readers. The third book in the "Creepy Tales!" series, it was published by Simon & Schuster on Augand tells the story of Jasper, a young rabbit who finds and uses a possessed crayon in order to get good grades at school.Ĭreepy Crayon! was received positively by critics and was a topseller children's fiction book in the United States. Creepy Crayon! is a horror children's book written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown.
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