Kirkus Reviews compared Reynold's writing to Rod Serling's monologues due to "its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor." They also praised Brown's illustration, who used a grayscale tone except for the crayon, calling this choice a callback to the old sci-fi thrillers, as well as an introduction to the horror genre for new readers. The third book in the "Creepy Tales!" series, it was published by Simon & Schuster on Augand tells the story of Jasper, a young rabbit who finds and uses a possessed crayon in order to get good grades at school.Ĭreepy Crayon! was received positively by critics and was a topseller children's fiction book in the United States.
In terms of the creepy factor though, I should warn that this is the most likely to scare children as the crayon, while presented quite friendly at first, comes off far more intimidating than the antagonists of the other books.Creepy Crayon! is a horror children's book written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown.
My daughter loves all three, personally I rank this above the first (Creepy Carrots) and below the second (Creepy Pair of Underwear).
Again the art is wonderful, full of black, white and grays emulating old Universal monster movies (with frames that feel very much like they are from horror movies), with a dash of whatever the theme color is (in this case purple for the crayon). Third in the series of kid’s books about this poor rabbit and his supernatural encounters. No art time, no enjoyment, not unless the crayon allows it. but then it won’t let him do anything for himself. It seems pleasant enough at first, helping him ace his test, answer all questions right without studying, and allowing for more video game time. In fact, it’s more than CREEPY, it may be evil.
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