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.

There was a villain at work, of course, but I don't mean the Child Catcher. It was the executives at United Artists who were so eager to make a movie out of this book that they somehow decided the ...

Before there was a feature film or a book, there was Crockett Johnson. 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 ...

Actor Zooey Deschanel is bringing the beloved children's book, "Harold and the Purple Crayon," to the big screen. The film, which hits theaters on Friday, brings the classic story to life — with ...

In 1998, HarperCollins relaunched the “Harold” books – seven picture books in which the title character, standing on a blank page, uses his purple crayon to draw the world and his adventures ...

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.

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

Maybe it’s unfair to call out a bizarre, ugly, unlikable live-action rendition of a beloved children’s book like Harold and the Purple Crayon, for being illogical. It is, after all, a visual ...

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.

The movie is adapted from Crockett Johnson’s elemental picture book, which was published in 1955 (it was followed by half a dozen sequels), and which was so simple that it seemed magical: Harold, a ...