Crayons and Markers, Personified

Julia and Madeleine both love the book "The Day the Crayons Quit," and its sequel, "The Day the Crayons Came Home."  In fact, each girl enjoys these books so much that they BOTH came up with the idea to make a plagiarized sequel to the sequel as a Christmas gift for each other. 

Julia's book to Madeleine kept the main character, Duncan, from the real books:

The Day The Crayons Came to Duncan
Julia Rowe
"Merry Christmas Madeleine, for you with love who also loved these books." -J.R.


Madeleine took a slightly more liberal approach, both in her title and in her main character:

It's just us

"dear julia, you love me but kan you pleas tell your little sistr that she has to yous me love dork blue markr
p.s. im stil hear"

Sheesh.  That dork blue markr is being awfully demanding.  It's not enough to yoused by julia, but her little sistr has to use the dork blue as well??

"dear julia you no that im for chrismis so kood you pleas yous me for that more ofin love red markr"

YEAH.  Red markr is only for chrismis.  Doesn't matter if it's chrismis or not.  YOUS red markr MORE OFIN.  But only for chrismis.

"Hi julia i llik my job kus you love me so much and i llik you love bron markr"

Aww!  Bron markr is the best of them all!  He's just thankful for being loved.  No demands here.  That dork blue and that red markr are just SUPER high-maintenance whiners.

"Dear julia i love that i am so brit but there is one problem i am so brit that you kan bareli see me love yellow markr."

Well, yellow markr, that's kind of a legit complaint, seeing as I have trouble actually reading this page that's written in you.


That's the end of "It's just us."  No actual resolution to the markrs' problems, just the complaints.  But I guess since it's a gift for Julia and the letters are addressed to her, perhaps it's up to Julia herself to figure out how to make all those markrs happy.  Either that, or just stick with bron markr and screw all the rest of 'em.


At any rate, the girls were both delighted by the plagiarized sequels they received, so, although all may not be right in the crayon/marker world, all (for the moment) is right in the Rowe sisterhood.