Drew Daywalt’s The Day the Crayons Quit is headed to the big screen Sony Pictures has plans to adapt the popular children’s book The Day the Crayons Quit for the big screen. Deadline has the news, reporting that the bestseller, written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, is being planned as a live action / animation hybrid. 21 Laps is developing the property with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen producing and Daywalt and Jeffers themselves serving as executive producers. RELATED: Sony Pictures 2018 Schedule Shifts Hotel Transylvania, Bad Boys, Goosebumps and More Published in 2013 by Philomel Books, The Day the Crayons Quit was named Amazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year and has, to date, sold more than 300 million copies.