When asked about the book Harold and the Purple Crayon, renowned children’s author Maurice Sendak responded by saying, “there are no lessons in ‘Harold.’ You have fun, you do what you like and no one’s going to punish you” (NPR). Written in 1955 by Crockett Johnson, many critics have praised his book, Harold and the Purple Crayon, for delightfully embodying the beautiful innocence and bliss of childhood, one journal saying “Harold and the Purple Crayon has long been celebrated as depicting and encouraging
Johnson’s, Harold and the Purple Crayon, when Harold, a small boy with a large imagination, creates his world using a purple crayon. Also, Leo Lionni uses a mouse named Fredrick to capture “colors” and “sunrays” in his Caldecott winning book Fredrick. However, imagination is not the only tool utilized in these books; art, and the power found in creativity are equally stressed. Also, while both books contain these three elements they address them in different ways. Both Harold and the Purple Crayon
My children’s author is Chris Van Allsburg. Lots of people like Chris Van Allsburg, he is an author of children's books and is an award winning author by far. Chris writes and illustrates books on fictional characters in his writings like The Polar Express. The Polar Express is the most well known book he has wrote (Scholastic.com, 2004)” Chris Van Allsburg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen and Richard Allsburg (Thomson, 2006). His sister
children’s book. This era takes a new turn by focusing on protecting the children’s childhood. Imagination showed up in numerous books; Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, and Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. As for emotion continuously appears in those books. For this era in particular imagination seems to be a bigger trend. This era really promoted imagination and allowed children to be blocked out from the real world