Even young viewers of “Harold and the Purple Crayon” may feel they’ve seen versions of most of these effects before. For what made the book special wasn’t just that Harold could draw anything.

When we meet him, Harold is a cartoon boy with a purple crayon who can draw anything he wants, including his two best friends: Moose (a moose) and Porcupine (a porcupine). Together, they live in a ...

However, he somehow managed to draw himself off of the book’s pages into our world. After relying on a purple crayon his whole life, Harold is going to have to learn how real life functions.

Based on the children’s book of the same name, “Harold and the Purple Crayon” is about a boy named Harold who can draw anything — and we do mean anything — and make it literally come to ...

By A.O. Scott “How does Harold draw himself?” my friend Noam wondered. Noam is 4, so he has a taste for the kind of bracing philosophical speculation that “Harold and the Purple Crayon ...

You can pre-order Harold and the Purple Crayon on Blu-ray or DVD at Amazon ... all home video formats include the following: How to Draw Harold, Porcupine & Moose “Colors” Sing Along How ...

So here I am taking out my own purple crayon, attempting to magic ... which is a problem when he’s wielding a crayon that can draw anything into existence. Perhaps it was cute for a 32-year ...

As Johnson’s biographer and a scholar of children’s literature, I started to wonder about Harold’s race while researching “How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the ...

Mel gives Harold a box full of crayons of different colors at the end of Harold and the Purple Crayon. Once he is in the magical world again, he now uses different colors to draw things in his world.

In the 1955 picture book “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a small boy finds he can will anything into existence by simply drawing it with his magical implement. The movie version suggests a ...

Even young viewers of "Harold and the Purple Crayon" may feel they've seen versions of most of these effects before. For what made the book special wasn't just that Harold could draw anything.