![]() ![]() Jasper is only a little creeped out until the crayon changes his art-the one area where Jasper excels-into something better. When he faces a math quiz after skipping his homework, the crayon aces it for him. When Jasper watches TV instead of studying, he misspells every word on his spelling test, but the crayon seems to know the answers, and when he uses the crayon to write, he can spell them all. ![]() Jasper is flunking everything except art and is desperate for help when he finds the crayon. When a young rabbit who’s struggling in school finds a helpful crayon, everything is suddenly perfect-until it isn’t. Here’s hoping readers who are similarly challenged in the behavior department will get both messages: Teachers are people, and they give back what they get. The digitally composited and colored India ink, watercolor, gouache and pencil illustrations use a palette of green, shades of tan and brown, aqua and salmon that suits the text’s tongue-in-cheek humor and monster theme, the colors brightening as Ms. Kirby still roars and stomps and frowns upon paper airplanes in class, though she retains her human features (if not her skin color, at least not all the time). Kirby, who has slowly been losing her green skin, spiky teeth, hippolike nostrils and hulking bulk, silently hands him a piece of paper. And when Bobby takes her to his favorite high overlook, Ms. Some painful small talk and a hat rescued from the wind slowly lead the two to deeper interaction. But in a show of maturity, Bobby understands that running away (no matter how much he may want to) will only make things worse. Kirby and Bobby feel when their private moments are interrupted by the other. In a marvelously illustrated, wordless spread, Brown shows how both Ms. The little boy’s one refuge is the park-but so is Ms. A behaviorally challenged little boy for whom paper airplanes are a particular weakness learns to see his teacher as a person when he meets her outside the classroom.īobby’s teacher stomps, roars and takes away recess (not without reason). ![]()
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