The Day the Crayons Quit was recently announced as the 2015 winner of the
Texas Bluebonnet Award, a children's choice award by students in grades 3-6. This hilarious fantasy by debut book author
Drew Daywalt (who has
lots of experience in film writing and directing) has the crayons in the box on strike and writing letters to their owner about their various complaints.
Oliver Jeffers' whimsical illustrations incorporate crayons (of course!) as well as mixed media. This book would be a great mentor text for a lesson on letter-writing.
The Texas Bluebonnet Award is one of many children's choice competitions across the country. Some of you Tarleton students probably remember participating when you were in grades 3-6. Students are supposed to read at least five books on the list of twenty, and then vote for a favorite in January of the following year.
A Texas Bluebonnet
Award has been given since 1981. The
master lists and voting results from all those years are still available. We have
all of the winners and
596 books from the lists in the Dick Smith Library (on the lower level in the Curriculum Collection).
The
master list of nominees for the current year (2015-2016) was announced a few months ago.
We have these books in both the Dick Smith Library and the Texan Hall Library in the Hickman Building of the Fort Worth campus. Students across the state are reading these books and will vote for their favorite in January 2016. Here's a one-minute video of the covers of these books:
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