The picture book, written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson, follows Harold, a child who can create whatever he can imagine, so long as he draws it with his magic purple crayon. The film adaptation ...

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The picture book, written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson, follows Harold, a child who can create whatever he can imagine, so long as he draws it with his magic purple crayon.

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At least in “Purple Crayon,” the first of seven books about Harold, there is no sign of a parent, ... “The Carrot Seed,” was published with his illustrations in 1945.

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In the original children’s book, Harold, a young boy, goes for a walk at night with his oversize purple crayon, according to HarperCollins, the New York-based publisher of the book.

The picture book, written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson, follows Harold, a child who can create whatever he can imagine, so long as he draws it with his magic purple crayon.

The picture book, written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson, follows Harold, a child who can create whatever he can imagine, so long as he draws it with his magic purple crayon. The film adaptation ...

“Harold and the Purple Crayon,” the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release.