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2015年新浪育儿十佳自媒体。精通中英日三语，留学日本，旅居美国，现就职于加拿大大学。早教、北美家教、英语启蒙研究者。著有《家庭亲密育儿法》。崇尚亲密养育，把孩子培养为德，智，体全面发展的人才。这本书今年九月起在当当、卓越和京东隆重上市。

公众号后台，有朋友问玛希娅8岁的孩子适合读什么绘本。今天玛希娅就给大家介绍这本赢得了众多大奖的绘本：The Day the Crayon Quit。在北美，许多幼儿园和小学老师把这本书作为教材使用。而老师们也会根据学生的英语能力和水平做出相应的调整，让各个年龄段的孩子都能从这本书中学到各种知识。

故事内容

一天，在课堂上，Duncan打开蜡笔盒，看到了一叠蜡笔写给他的信。红色蜡笔告诉Duncan，自己的工作量太大了，连节假日都没有，因此想要休息；紫色蜡笔喜欢整洁，它因为Duncan涂色时总把颜色涂到框框外而不满；灰色蜡笔因为自己要着色的动物体型太大而愁眉苦脸；黑色蜡笔为自己总是画轮廓而不满；绿色蜡笔倒是没有什么大的忧虑，但他让Duncan帮忙解决黄色和橘黄色蜡笔之间的矛盾；粉红色的蜡笔因为Duncan只把自己和看成是女孩子才用的颜色而不高兴，它希望Duncan偶尔把恐龙、怪物等也涂成粉红色。

蜡笔和人一样，也有自己的想法，善良的Duncan听了蜡笔们吐露的心声之后，想到一个绝妙的主意。他接受了蜡笔们的建议，运用所有颜色的蜡笔画了一幅让他们都满意和充满惊喜的画作。

作者

本书由美国著名作家和导演德鲁•戴沃特（Drew Daywalt）、以及英国著名画家奥利弗·杰夫斯（Oliver Jeffers）合作而成。

德鲁所制的电影、电视节目屡获殊荣，而奥利弗则入选“英国十大图画书作家”，他创作的绘本已经获得了30多项童书顶级大奖。

这本书的中文版已由接力出版社引进，于2014年6月出版。

环球公司买已经准备将其拍成电影。

荣誉和大奖

这本书自2013年6月上市以来，已经赢得了许多大奖：

2014年美国E.B.怀特朗读奖

2014年美国图书馆协会最佳童书

2013年美国亚马逊网最佳童书奖

2013年美国《出版人周刊》最佳图画书奖

2013年美国好读者网站年度最佳图书

蝉联《纽约时报》童书畅销榜冠军55周
以及《华尔街日报》、《书单》等其他众多提名和大奖

朗读方法

对于幼儿，父母首先和孩子看视频，也可以让孩子反复听音频。对自己的英语有信心的父母可以给模仿视频中的语音、语调给孩子阅读绘本。

和绘本配套的手工

1）材料

•空蜡笔盒

•胶水或透明胶带

•剪刀

•黑色钢笔或铅笔

•蜡笔和对话气泡的模版

2）做法

1.首先把模版打印出来。

2.让孩子做对话泡泡上写出自己想要说的话。英语不太好的孩子，可以从绘本中找出一些句子，而英语能力比较强的就可以自由发挥。

3. 把蜡笔和对话泡泡剪下来。

4.用胶水或透明胶带把蜡笔和对话泡泡粘贴到空蜡笔盒上。

游戏

Coloring (涂色)

给这些蜡笔涂色。

maze (迷宫)

帮brown蜡笔找到自己的朋友。

Dot to Dot （点点连线，2组）

根据数字标记，把点和点连起来。这种游戏不仅可以培养孩子的数数的能力，也可以训练孩子绘画的基本功。

找出不同点

从2张图片中，找出不同的地方。这样的游戏可以培养孩子的专注力和记忆力。是早教的好材料。

基本词汇

1. 动物

hippo －河马

dragon－龙

bear－熊

pony－小马

poppy－小狗

turkey－火鸡

elephant－象

penguin – 企鹅

humpback whale －座头鲸

crocodile －鳄鱼

frog －青蛙

2. color（颜色）

red－红色

beige－米色

yellow－黄色

green－绿色

white－白色

black－黑色

blue — 蓝色

purple－紫色

pink－粉红色

gray－灰色

brown－棕色

orange－橘黄色

3. Food （食物）

apple －苹果

strawberry －草莓

grape－葡萄

diner－晚餐

wheat－小麦

The Day the Crayon Quit视频

玛希娅给大家下载了一个阅读绘本的视频和PDF原版英语绘本。

如果需要的朋友，可以：

1 将今天的文章分享到朋友圈。

2. 并把截图发到玛希娅育儿公众后台。

3. 等待玛希娅把分享的连接发给大家。内容包括和原版绘本PDF，相配的5个游戏、本书作者的阅读指导（英语版）、1个原版英语视频和原版英语绘本（PDF）。

附：故事原文

The Day the Crayons Quit

（Written by Drew Daywalt Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers）

One day in class, Duncan went to take out his crayons and found a stack of letters with his name on them.

Red Crayon:

Hey Duncan,
It’s me, RED Crayon. WE NEED to talk. You make me work harder than any of your other crayons. All year long I wear myself out coloring FIRE ENGINES, Apples, strawberries and EVERYTHING ELSE that’s RED. I even work on Holidays!

I have to color all the SANTas at CHRIStmas and aLL the HEArts on Valentine’s day! I NEED A REST!

Your overworked friend, RED Crayon.

Purple Crayon:

Dear Duncan,

All right, LISTEN.

I love that I’m your favorite crayon for grapes, dragons, and wizard’s hats, but it makes me
crazy that so much of my gorgeous color goes outside the lines. If you DON’T START COLORING INSIDE the lines soon ... I’m going to COMPLETELY LOSE IT.

Your very neat friend, Purple

Crayon

Beige Crayon:

Dear Duncan,

I’m tired of being called “light brown” or “Dark tan” because I am neither. I am BEIGE and I am proud. I’m also tired of being second place to Mr. Brown Crayon. It’s not fair that Brown gets all the bears, ponies and puppies while the only things I get are turkey dinners (if I’m lucky) and wheat, and let’s be honest–when was the last time you saw a kid excited about coloring wheat?

Your BEIGE friend, Beige Crayon

Gray Crayon:

Duncan,

GRAY Crayon here. You’re KILLING ME! I know you love Elephants And I know that elephants are gray... but that’s a LOT of space to color in all by myself.

And don’t even get me started on your rhinos, hippos and HUMPBACK WHALES... you know how tired I am after handling one of those big things? such BIG animals... baby penguins are gray, you know. So are very tiny rocks. Pebbles. How about one of those once in a while to give me a break?

Your very tired friend, Gray Crayon

White Crayon:

Dear Duncan,

You color with me, but why? most of the time I’m the same color as the page you are using me on–WHITE. If I didn’t have a black outline, you wouldn’t even know I was THERE! I’m not even in the rainbow. I’m only used to color SNOW or to fill in empty space between other things. And it leaves me feeling... well... empty. We need to talk.

Your empty friend, White Crayon

Black Crayon:

Hi, Duncan,

I HATE being used to draw the outline of things... ... things that are colored in by other colors, all of which think they’re brighter than me! It’s NOT FAIR when you use me to draw a nice beach ball and then fill in the colors of the ball with ALL THE OTHER CRAYONS. How about a BLACK Beach ball sometime? Is that too much to ask?

Your Friend, Black Crayon

Green Crayon:

Dear Duncan,

As Green Crayon, I am writing for two reasons. One is to say that I like my workloads of crocodiles, trees, dinosaurs, and frogs. I have no problem and wish to congratulate you on a very successful “coloring things Green” career so far.
The second reason I write is for my friends, Yellow Crayon and Orange Crayon, who are no longer speaking to each other. Both crayons feel THEY should be the color of the sun. Please settle this soon because they’re driving the rest of us CRAZY!

Your happy friend, Green Crayon

Yellow Crayon:

Dear Duncan,

Yellow Crayon here. I need you to tell orange crayon that I am the color of the sun. I would tell him but we are no longer speaking. And I can PROVE I’m the color of the sun too! Last Tuesday, you used me to color in the sun on your “HAPPY FARM” coloring book. In case you’ve forgotten, it’s on page 7. You CAN’T MISS me. I’m shining down brilliantly on a field of YELLOW corn!

Your pal (and the true color of the sun), Yellow Crayon

Orange Crayon:

Dear Duncan,

I see Yellow Crayon already talked to you, the BIG WHINER. Anyway, could you please tell Mr. Tattletale that he IS NOT the color of the sun? I would, but we are no longer speaking. We both know that I am clearly the color of the SUN because, on Thursday, you used me to color the sun on BOTH the “monkey island” and the “Meet the Zookeeper” pages in your “DAY AT THE ZOO” coloring book. Orange you glad I’m here? Ha!

Your pal (and the real color of the sun), Orange Crayon

Blue Crayon:

Dear DUNCAN,
It has been great being your FAVORITE color this PAST Year. And the Year before THAT!

I have really enjoyed all those OCEANS, LAKES, Rivers, raindrops, rain CLOUDS and CLEAR skies.
But the BAD NEWS is that I am so short and stubby, I can’t even see over the railing in the CRAYON BOX anymore! I need a BREAK!

Your very stubby friend. Blue Crayon

Pink Crayon:

Duncan,

Okay, LISTEN HERE, KID! You have not used me ONCE in the past year.

It’s because you think I am a GIRLS’ color, isn’t it? Speaking of which, please tell your little sister I said thank you for using me to color in her “LITTle PRINCess” coloring book. I think she did a fabulous job of staying inside the lines!

Now, back to us. Could you PLEASE use me sometime to color the occasional PINK DINOSAur or MONSTER or COWBoy? Goodness knows they could use a splash of color.

Your unused friend, Pink Crayon

Peach Crayon:

It’s me, PEACH CRAYON. WHY did you peel off my paper wrapping?? Now I’m NAKED and too embarrassed to leave the crayon box.

I don’t even have any underwear! How would You like to go to school naked? I need some clothes. HELP!

Your naked friend, PEACH Crayon

Well, poor Duncan just want to color… and of course, he wants his friends to be happy. And that give his an idea.

When Duncan showed his teacher his new picture, she gave him a A for cploring…

And a A+ for creativity.

玛希娅10年北美家庭教育研究成果，融合国际视野和教育新知的育儿工具书《家庭亲密育儿法》今年9月起在当当、卓越、京东隆重上市。