Creepy Crayon!

(Hardback)

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A #1 New York Times bestseller!

From the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carrots! and Creepy Pair of Underwear! comes the third in this hilariously spooky series about a young rabbit and his peculiar encountersfeaturing a sinister crayon!

Jasper Rabbit has a problem: he is NOT doing well in school. His spelling tests Disasters. His math quizzes Frightening to behold. But one day, he finds a crayon lying in the gutter. Purple. Pointy. Perfect. Somehowit looked happy to see him. And it wants to help.

At first, Jasper is excited. Everything is going great. His spelling is fantastic. His math is stupendous. And best of all, he doesnt have to do ANY work! But then the crayon starts acting weird. Its everywhere, and it wants to do everything. And Jasper must find a way to get rid of it before it takes over his life. The only problem The creepy crayon will not leave.

Reviews

"Harold and the Purple Crayon meets Faust, and the imaginative, humorously written result is so ridiculous that its hard to stay really scared." -- -Horn Book * 9/1/22 *
"Reynolds text might as well be a Rod Serling monologue for its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor. 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.Chilling in the best ways." -- -Kirkus Reviews(starred review) * 6/15/22 *
"Even readers who wouldnt mind a smart crayon of their own should see the value in that." -- -Booklist * 07/01/2022 *

Author Bio

Aaron Reynolds is theNew York Timesbestselling author of many highly acclaimed books for kids, includingHere Comes Destructosaurus!,Carnivores, and the Caldecott Honorwinning bookCreepy Carrots!.He regularly makes time to visit schools where his hilarious hands-on presentations keep kids spellbound. Aaron lives in Chicago with his wife, two kids, four cats, and anywhere between zero and ten goldfish, depending on the day. Visit Aaron at Aaron-Reynolds.com.

Peter Brown is the author and illustrator of many bestselling childrens books, includingChildren Make Terrible Pets,Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, andThe Curious Garden. He is also the author of the bestselling middlegrade Wild Robot duology. He is the recipient of a Caldecott Honor forCreepy Carrots!, two E.B. White ReadAloud Awards, aNew York TimesBest Illustrated Childrens Book Award, and a Childrens Choice Book Award for Illustrator of the Year. Peters website isPeterBrownStudio.com.