crayon

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Meanwhile, the 2025 novel “Unfit” by Ariana Harwicz, about a mother losing her children in a custody battle, uses erratic crayon scribbles on its cover.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

“You are smart and kind,” she wrote in pencil, the handwriting surrounded by crayon hearts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

The suite is mostly through-composed, yet its harmonic palette invites creativity—“like a crayon box,” Mr. Ross told me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

It’s so obvious, it’s practically unconscious — like being told to crayon a great painting and selecting the “Mona Lisa.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

He had a biscuit tin next to him, and from the tin he pulled what looked like a crayon the size of a small candle.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman