|a Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective. 25 Total Resources 5 Awards View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. |a 40 unnumbered pages : |b color illustrations |c 30 cm All the other crayons expect Red to conform to their expectations but he simply can’t.
|a New York, NY : |b Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c |a Red : |b a crayon's story / |c Michael Hall. But when he shows his true color it is a thrill to watch him soar.|a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d OCLCO |d FOLLT |d UtOrBLW With each blue heart the crayon draws, children can feel the tension of being misunderstood. The visual details - including the mismatched endpapers - are witty and plentiful. It takes a new friend with a fresh perspective to encourage Red’s natural gifts. by Michael Hall, Greenwillow, 17.99, ages 4-8 It’s early in the year for sweeping declarations, but I can’t help myself: Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall will be one of 2015’s. He tries to draw strawberries, a stoplight, and cherries, among other rosy objects, with disappointing results. Narrated by a pencil, “Red” is the story of a mislabeled crayon, a little guy whose waxy blue self is covered in a red paper wrapper and no one - not his well-meaning parents, his diligent teachers, his generous grandparents (charming silver and gray nubs), nor his baffled peers - can see past his label. He has done lovely work with picture books’ most basic vocabulary before: shape in “My Heart Is Like a Zoo” and “Perfect Square” and color in “It’s an Orange Aardvark.” He plays with color again in “Red,” but this time Hall has written a deeper story.
It’s early in the year for sweeping declarations, but I can’t help myself: “Red: A Crayon’s Story” by Michael Hall will be one of 2015’s sensations in kid lit.
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