Harold and the Purple Crayon
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One evening Harold chose to go for a walk in the moonlight. But there wasn’t any moon, and Harold needed a moon for a walk in the moonlight. Fortunately, he had brought his purple crayon. So he drew a moon. He also needed something to walk on. So he drew a path…
And thus starts one of the most imaginative and delightful adventures in all of children’s books. The creative concept behind this beloved tale has intrigued children and kept them absorbed for generations, as page by page unfolds the dramatic and clever adventures of Harold and his purple crayon.
Amazon.com Review“One night, after thinking it over for some time, Harold chose to go for a walk in the moonlight.” So starts this gentle tale that shows just how far your imagination can take you. Armed only with an oversized purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of beauty and excitement. But this is no hare-brained, offhand flight of fantasy. Cherubic, round-headed Harold conducts his adventure with the utmost prudence, letting his imagination run free, but keeping his wits about him all the while. He takes the necessary purple-crayon precautions: drawing landmarks to ensure he won’t get lost; sketching a boat when he finds himself in deep water; and making a purple pie picnic when he feels the first pangs of hunger.
Crockett Johnson’s understated tribute to the imagination was first published in 1955, and has been inspiring readers of all ages ever since. Harold’s silent but magical journey reminds us of the marvels the mind can make, and also gives us the wondrous sense that anything is possible. (Ages 4 to 
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This book was a peice o’… you know and wasn’t worth the time or effort to read. My brother thoght it was lame and he is 8. I reflect you can do better with your selection of books.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
He goes on adventures with his crayon by building and drawing the adventures
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I like this tale so I bought it for my son. When we got it there were at least 10 blank pages in the book fragmenting the tale so terribly that it didnt make any sence. My beef is not with the tale its with Amazon for selling it to me in that condition and with the publisher for their quality control issues. I only paid 6.99 for it so I didnt mess with returning it. Im going to try it again and see if we can get the whole tale this time. If the book is not right this time I will return it and not buy books from Amazon again. Hopefully we will get a full tale and we can delight in it like my parents and I did when I was a kid.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Under an everpresent crescent moon, Harold’s portentous crayon implies the metacritique immanent in all eschatologies: Outcoding the text beneath him, he at once embraces and negates the theme’s death in a meeting of poststructural praxis/(post-)modern framing with narrotological desire. Harold, purple crayon firmly in hand, rises from the smoking ruins of continental thought; but having been “written”, will our protagonist find fortitude to “write” his way out of the aporias inherent in a de-centered, post-past dasein?
There is hope….The trace, in erasure of its present presence, loops back from Harold to Johnson, engendering ample clues for resistance to our clinical stare…But the specter of psychoanalytic eschatology haunts his every gesture. Every slippage is deferred, in its deferral, of Harold’s problematized Lacan, leaving no indivisible remainder, defying the fatal strategies of his feints (forgetting Baudrillard) to attempt that final erasure of Derrida’s (cottage) industry through a (re)sound(ing) metanarratalogical poetic. Outdistancing at every step all Derridean slippage, Harold’s gestures in the dark problematize the infinite substitution and free play within a meadow of signifiers (themselves privileged signifieds of the wall/not-wall of the enclosing space/page), resisting inevitably all attempts at reconstituting envelopes of perfomative (de-)coding. With startling metaphysical elan, Harold slips the bounds of our logocentric world to inscribe traces of an essentialist foundation light-years beyond the double challenger (re)inscribed by la differance: beyond Freud, with (in) Freud, with(out) Freud, to be about Freud, forgetting Freud.
All in all, this “Harold” represents a remarkably vigorous (re)covery of Saussurean categories.
This is no boy scribbling terse graffitos to a lost master narratology; this is the newly minted currency of our retinal meadow.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Although this is a well known, classic children’s book, my girls (3&6) are not not very interested. The drawings are simple and not very colorful. The thought that Harold draws things that become real is cool, but the tale is not dynamically expressed. This book is a bit too sublime for my kids.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5