Drew Daywalt
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Drew Daywalt is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Drew Daywalt
Drew Daywalt was a Hollywood screenwriter and director — of horror shorts, improbably — before The Day the Crayons Quit spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list and made him the master of inanimate-object comedy.
The crayon letters sat in a drawer for a decade of rejections; Daywalt has said he wrote them after wondering, staring at a worn crayon box between film projects, which color hated its job most.
Also by this author: The Day the Crayons Came Home · The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
Official website: www.drewdaywalt.com
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.