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Harold and the purple crayon

Author: Crockett Johnson
Publisher: [New York] : Harper & Row, [1955] ©1955
Series: A Harper trophy book.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.
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Genre/Form: Action and adventure fiction
Fantasy fiction
Adventure stories
Fiction
Juvenile works
Juvenile literature
Dust jackets (Binding)
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Crockett Johnson
ISBN: 0064430227 9780064430227 0060229357 9780060229351 0060229365 9780060229368 9780618809097 0618809090 0881036951 9780881036954
OCLC Number: 22963112
Awards: Winner of E.B. White Read Aloud Award (Picture Bk Hall of Fame) 2013
Target Audience: Ages 4-8.
Description: 54 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Series Title: A Harper trophy book.
Responsibility: by Crockett Johnson.
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Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.

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Good for encouraging imaginations

by alicesneary (WorldCat user published 2008-10-24) Very Good Permalink

My daughter is 13 months old and she hasn't been able to sit through the whole book in one sitting quite yet. It does require more attention span than some of the shorter "board" books out there.

But I love the idea that it's teaching her to make her own adventures and use her imagination freely.

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