crayons

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the work people do at a crayon factory.

Presents a brief biography of Edwin Binney, the man who founded Crayola Crayons, describing his early life and business career.

Everything Newton draws with his magic red crayon becomes real, and heeding his mother's admonition he flies the airplane he draws right out the window.

Explains how crayons are made, from the production of the colors to the packaging of the final product.

Describes, in text and step-by-step photographs, the manufacture of a crayon from wax to finished product.

A boy's red crayon is very helpful at school, providing him with interesting facts about red things in the world, but as it gets stubbier with use it stops cooperating and starts hiding.

Brown crayon sings "Play, Mud pie day," and Blue crayon calls "Sky, Swing so high" in this story about talking crayons.

Follows the process of a crayon being made, from its beginning as clear wax to the finished product.

An introduction to the process by which wax is transformed into crayons.

An introduction to the process of making crayons, from melting and coloring the wax to drawing a picture with the finished product.