Book description
What child doesn't love to hold a crayon in their hands? But children didn't always have such magical boxes of crayons. Before Edwin Binney set out to change things, children couldn't really even draw in colour.
Here's the true story of an inventor who so loved nature's vibrant colours that…
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1 author picked The Crayon Man as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Edwin Binney loved color! It’s this love of color that helped propel him near the turn of the 20th century to invent the world’s best crayons at the time and arguably the world’s best crayons of ALL time. I mean, what kid doesn’t love Crayola crayons, right?
My favorite part of this book is all the imagination and experimentation that Binney and his team put into developing the perfect crayon recipe and color combinations. Kids will also have fun with the endpapers, which depict many nameless crayons with an invitation to “Choose a color. Give it a name. Draw a…
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