![]() ![]() Brown goes all in to match with a grayscale palette for everything but the purple crayona callback to black-and-white sci-fi thrillers as much as a visual cue for nascent horror readers. ![]() With literal bathroom humor and just the right touches of creepiness, this is sure to be another hit with young readers.Ĭons: I wasn’t so clear on what made the crayon creepy. Reynolds’ text might as well be a Rod Serling monologue for its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor. Pros: Jasper’s many fans will welcome him back (and enjoy glimpses from the other two books) just in time for the spooky fall season. (Creepy epilogue: the crayon travels through the sewer system and washes up on a beach where it’s discovered by Elliot Pelican.) 48 pages ages 4-8. Flushing it down the toilet winds up being the most effective solution, and Jasper can enjoy whatever grades he gets, knowing that they’re the result of his own efforts. ![]() ![]() That’s not as easy as it looks, as the crayon turns out to have the ability to regenerate itself after being broken, melted, and thrown into the trash. Jasper seems to feel like he’s losing his identity when his work is not his own and decides the crayon must be destroyed. Jasper’s been struggling with school (he’s failing all his subjects except art) but he discovers that when he writes his assignments with his new crayon friend, he gets straight A’s. Summary: Jasper Rabbit of Creepy Carrots and Creepy Pair of Underwear fame is back with a new reason to be scared: a purple crayon that seems to have all the answers. ![]()
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