In a world where every piece of IP gets turned into a movie, one book dares to get a very strange adaptation. Harold and the Purple Crayon started out as a beloved children’s picture book from the ...

Is Crockett Johnson’s Harold, of “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a child of color? If you’ve bought any of the “Harold” books published in the past 25 years, or saw the new movie starring Zachary Levi ...

Crockett Johnson’s 1955 children’s book, Harold and the Purple Crayon, tells the story of a boy and his empurpled crayon alone in the world. When Harold doesn’t use his trusty companion to draw, 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 bracing ...

Growing up, I loved the children’s novel “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” So when the Hollywood film version came along, you’d better believe I was primed. Like the book, the movie was about a family with a ...

It’s official: Zachary Levi is bringing the classic children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon to the big screen with a live-action adaptation. “We about to paint this town PURPLE, y’all!” Levi, 43, ...

Harold and the Purple Crayon sees the iconic storybook character come to the real world to find his "Old Man" and discover ...

The sheer existence of this live-action adaptation of the classic children’s book “Harold and the Purple Crayon” inspires a number of questions on a purely basic level. Who is this for? The book by ...

It’s official: Zachary Levi is bringing the classic children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon to the big screen with a live-action adaptation. “We about to paint this town PURPLE, y’all!” Levi, 43, ...

The boy with the purple crayon and the big imagination is all grown up. Zachary Levi brings Harold out of his picture book and into the real world in the first film adaptation of the children’s ...