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These brainy coloring books are a sad commentary on the Square, but sadder still for the little ones who are expected to take Crayola to paper and stay in the lines--all in the name of educational enrichment and personal advancement...
Children who are presented with coloring books like A. G. Smith's Knights and Armor, for example, are supposed to check out the "glossary of terms" in the back. And you can bet that the author doesn't intend for artists to fill in the line drawings with Crayola's new, vibrant colors: "wild strawberry" or "jungle green." No, Smith wants colorists to learn: If that means using the same depressing gray crayon on page after page in order to maintain accuracy, then...
Since violet blue was retired 14 months ago, 300 crayon aficionados a month have been complaining to Crayola maker Binney & Smith. The Easton, Pa., company took eight traditional colored crayons off the market and replaced them with such New Age hues as cerulean, dandelion and vivid tangerine. But protests from groups such as RUMPS (the Raw Umber and Maize Preservation Society) have swayed the crayon giant. One million boxes of the Crayola Eight came back on the market last week...
...Mommy, Mommy! I want Turtles! Gimmie Barbie! Can I have Batman?" Cruising the cereal aisle in the local supermarket these days is like changing channels on Saturday morning: a Crayola parade of sugarcoated turtles, ghosts, bats and bears goes by. Kids have an insatiable sweet tooth for breakfast foods based on cartoons, movies, toys and games, a fact that has cereal makers rubbing their hands and a growing cadre of parents hollering "Enough...
...bulging above cinched-in belts; conical straw hats; white socks in white sandals; baseball caps on balding heads; male decolletage; painted eyebrows; sequins in the daytime; polyester stretch pants; factory-knit acrylic cardigans; lots of polka dots; colors usually found only at the extremities of a kid's Crayola...