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Summary: wonderful book-my 3 year old loves it!
Review: We have Harold and the Purple Crayon and Harold Goes to the Sky. My 3 year old LOVES these books, and they're great for helping him with his imaganination..and his 34 year old mommy likes em too!!
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Summary: crockett johnson is da best!
Review: i love how harold can just create his world using sound logic that is at the same time... mind bending. makes me wish i could do that.
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Summary: My absolute favorite!
Review: I loved to read and be read to as a child (and still do to this day), and Harold and the Purple Crayon has always been my favorite children's story. Now that I'm in college, my battered, well-loved copy of the book still has a special place on my shelf. Harold was my role model. He could do anything, solve any problem. He made mistakes, but he could figure out how to fix them. And at the end of the day, Harold went to bed, just like I did. It is imaginative and fun, and it always made me feel like I could do anything. If you have children, get this book for them. They'll be sure to love it!
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Summary: A GENUINE CLASSIC ALL AGES LOVE
Review: This is a story I loved when I was a child. It is a gently written, wonderfully crafted fantasy about how a child takes creative control of his world with a single purple crayon. Harold takes his readers on many a literary pleasure jaunt with his crayon and one gets vicarious pleasure in seeing how Harold gets out of jams with a few swift strokes of that crayon! It is very funny and something all ages will love.
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Summary: An absolute tribute to unfettered imagination
Review: "Harold and the Purple Crayon" was one of my favorite books as a child, and I bought a copy the day I found out my wife was pregnant. I've tried a few times to interest my daughter in the book, but it was a bit too sophisticated for a 3-month old! Now that my daughter is three years old, she just pulled out this book from her shelf and asked me to read it to her. She was ready for it, and the magic worked! The story of Harold and his purple crayon drawing anything he can think of is still every bit as entrancing to her as it was to me thirty years ago. In story structure, it's very much like Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," but without the rebelliousness of Max: like Max, Harold goes on an adventure into his imaginary world, and then must find his way home. In short, an excellent classic, deserving of new generations of readers.
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Summary: Harold and the Purple Crayon
Review: Harold is a small boy who goes out for a walk with a purple crayon in his hand. Harold draws everything he needs or wants with his purple crayon including his bed when he gets ready to lie down and go to sleep at the end of the story.Teacher Notes: Harold and the Purple Crayon is one of several of Harold's Purple Crayon Adventures. Preschool or kindergarten children would love this book. It would be great to read to students who are reluctant to draw since Harold draws all of his adventures.
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Summary: Draw what you want!
Review: This book is about a boy who draws what he wants in the colorpurple! It is a wonderful book that is simple but could be used forall ages. Note to Teachers: Students can make their own book of their own colored crayon. They can draw what they want in their lives. It can also be used for higher level thinking by stating that life is what you make of it!
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Summary: Power and a Purple Crayon
Review: *Harold and the Purple Crayon* mesmerized me as a child. My 5 year old adores it, and my ten year old can't hide his continuing enthusiasm. With his purple Crayon, sensible Harold creates the moon so that he can see where he's going. He accidentally creates the sea (his drawing hand shakes, thus making waves appear) but soon negates this potential danger by drawing a boat and, finally, land. When hungry, Harold draws a delicious picnic with purple food. Harold copes. The central idea is that a child, no matter how small, can exert control over the world, and when that child makes mistakes -- drawing a choppy sea, for instance -- those mistakes can be remedied. This book gives a child power. Grown-ups don't count; Harold makes what he needs without help. Under the influence of this book, at the ripe age of 11, I created a club called "The Purple X", in which, using purple markers to send letters, I set out to right all wrongs. Harold goes one better; he makes light and land. And the book makes children who feel empowered to tackle the problems of a big, scary world.
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Summary: The opening of an impressionable child's eyes
Review: I read this book when I borrowed it from the library in my elementary school. I am now 18, and still reminisce on my beloved journeys around the world in a hot air balloon with Harold. This is the book that I borrowed for the first time, and then got it later again and again. It is one of the first books that ever opened my mind up to the total loss of imagination to all possibilities. Every time I read it I would think of many more adventures Harold could have had with his mystical purple crayon. Even to this day, I can think of no better book to give a child's imagination a glimpse of what possibilities there are. It is easy reading for the youngest of believers, but gives thought of what could be to even the oldest readers. I personally was not a child who favored reading, but this book was one of the few that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was one that I would read in the library while the class was still in it, and then would bring home for further enjoyment. I cannot recommend this book higher for any child whose imagination can run wild.
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Summary: I like purple
Review: journey into the purple corners of the subconscious. My favorite part was with the crayon. That was funny. the crayon was purple, and was used to draw things. the things that were drawn were all purple, though. I didnt understand that. Harold would be my buddy if me went to my school. other kids would draw with red or blue but harold and i would draw with purple. even if we were drawing a cow. Jung would call harold existential. I just think he is pretty neat. He used a purple crayon.
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