Duncan’s poor crayons have had it and air their individual grievances in this humorous picture book. The cover depicts the unhappy crayons picketing their cause followed by colorful, crayon-covered endpapers. Through crayon-written letters each color shares their story and their issues. The language used by each crayon indicates not only their personality but includes humor the young reader and even adults will adore. Each crayon’s grumbling differs, as do their colors. Red feels worn out, blue needs a break, pink feels unused, black has aspirations to be more than just the color of an outline, peach feels naked after Duncan tore off his wrapper and so on through the colors in the box; except for green who is writing on behalf of yellow and
