How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's Classic (Children's Classics Critically)

Nel, Philip

ISBN 10: 0197777597 / ISBN 13: 9780197777596

Published by Oxford University Press, 2024

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's Classic (Children's Classics Critically)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197777597
• ISBN 13: 9780197777596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

This is a biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature color, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer, and countless other creative people to become artists. Published 70 years ago, Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon is a small book about big ideas--ideas about childhood, creativity, politics, psychology, art, and reality itself. In thirty brief chapters, this book explores those ideas, illuminates the creative process, and offers a primer on how picture books work.

About the Author

Philip Nel is University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University and the author or co-editor of 13 books, including: Keywords for Children's Literature (with Nina Christensen and Lissa Paul) and a double-biography of the children's writers Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss. His Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature and the Need for Diverse Books was one of the catalysts for Dr. Seuss Enterprises' March 2021 decision to stop publishing six Dr. Seuss books that contain racist imagery.