Crayola Crayons Have Been Helping Children Color for Generations

Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.  I'm Barbara Klein.

Andrew:

Hi, my name is Andrew Bracken and I am six years old. I like to draw neighborhoods and cities. Right now I am drawing an ice cream store. My favorite crayon colors are: pink is my first, purple is my second and blue is my last.

CHARLIE DOHERTY:

Hi, I'm Charlie Doherty. I work here at the Crayola Factory making crayons...well, showing people how we make crayons and markers. Crayola was founded, the crayon part of the company, in nineteen-oh-three. In two thousand three we had our one-hundredth anniversary. We were the first to package eight different colors back in nineteen-oh-three. We had an eight pack. You know how many colors we make now? Guess! How many?

One hundred and a half. Yeah, they come in a tower.

Daisy:

My name is Daisy and I am four years old. Sometimes I color with crayons.  I like indigo, green and purple and pink and red and I like yellow...and green...and brown....