Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Book Titles That Sound Like They Could Be Crayola Crayon Colors. Checking out the existing Crayola colors, I fell down a deep rabbit-hole of Pinterest boards, graphs, charts, images… but I really like this one, which is a great visual reference of currently available Crayola crayons:
I also found this awesome chart that shows the evolution of Crayola colors over time — and if you go to the original site, you can hover over a color to see its name:
Onward to books!
I went through my shelves (physical and e-book), and came up with a list of 10 book titles that I think could also be great names for crayon colors. Tell me if you agree!
- Cress by Marissa Meyer — a fresh green, of course
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer — from the same series (the fabulous Lunar Chronicles) — a light, ashy grey
- Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown — a brown/black blend
- Iron Kissed by Patricia Brigg — this would have to be a steel grey with a hint of rose mixed in
- Firefly Beach by Luann Rice — I’m picturing a bright, sandy color
- Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire — maybe something electric blue?
- Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer — a deep, bloody red, of course
- Storm Front by Jim Butcher — a deep bluish-gray, veering more toward the dark side
- Rainwater by Sandra Brown – something pale and silvery
- The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley — a lovely red/pink mix
And just because I never get tired of looking at books, here’s a collage of the books on my list:
What book titles do you think would make good crayon names?
Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Ooh yes I love the idea of Storm Front especially – that would make such a cool cover! It’s funny the image I had in my head from what you put and then what they actually looked like. Love this.
I think we actually have a different cover for Storm Front somewhere in my house as well — a cityscape with lots of purple-black clouds and lightning. I like that one!
You put so much thought into this post. I love what you came up with.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-literature-themed-colouring-books/
Oh, thanks! I didn’t actually think I’d be able to come up with anything when I first saw the prompt.
Love this, I had real trouble with it though 😂
It was definitely a challenge! Looking up the charts and list of actual Crayola colors helped kick-start my brain. 🙂
I did that too and I still had trouble!!!
These are excellent connections. I have no idea why I never connected Cress with the color green before (of course), and Cinder with ashy grey, or Artificial Night as electric blue! Gah, perhaps my brain just cannot make such interesting connections. Thanks for also including the color charts, very helpful, and I definitely didn’t know there was such a HUGE range of Crayola. I only ever had the conventional plain box.
Apparently, there are oodles of sites devoted to fans of Crayola — who knew? I started reading some pieces, about how the number of colors doubles every so many years… mind boggling!
I love this post and the visuals of all the Crayola colors! I could easily picture myself using all of them when coloring! [My Top Ten]
it makes me miss my childhood coloring days, carefully guarding the “good” colors in my box of 64. Magenta was the one my best friend and I always competed to grab, and nobody ever wanted burnt sienna.
Wow, great idea to post those colour charts!
Thanks! It was so much fun to bounce around looking at crayon websites!
So many crazy colour! I only have to standard crayolas… very tempting to buy some more.
You came up with some great ones! Storm front and Rainwater are my favorites! 🙂
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Thanks! It ended up being another fun topic. 🙂
Those crayon graphics are fantastic! I love color so much. And I love that the books you chose are all different colors!
Thanks! This ended up being a fun post to put together, and I got a lot of entertainment from looking up images related to crayon colors!
That color chart is cool!
The interactive one is really fun!