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 ...

“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 ...

Zachary Levi plays Harold, a man who has been able to draw his whole life with a purple crayon. He lives in a world he created and has the power to control his existence to an extent but when he ...

Crockett Johnson's beloved 1955 storybook becomes one more adaptation of a children's classic that swaps in formula for magic. There was a villain at work, of course, but I don’t mean the Child ...

Harold is an adult on a quest in this tale based on the beloved children’s book by Crockett Johnson. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” the White Queen famously declares in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Nearly all of the best children’s books are ...

“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 ...