Crockett Johnson

Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.

From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon. Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices he has gotten very small-half the size of a daisy! Only a very clever artist could find his way home now. This Level 1 I Can Read imagination-sparking adventure...

A classic Harold and the Purple Crayon holiday adventure picture book! Harold at the North Pole finds Harold in need of a Christmas tree and Santa in need of Harold's help. It's up to Harold to draw a pack of jolly reindeer to transport Santa, along with his big bag of toys, through the night and save Christmas! Crockett Johnson's Christmas adventure, with its clever and inventive twists, will delight little ones eagerly awaiting Santa's arrival....

The beloved comic strip is finally given the Fantagraphics treatment. Barnaby's deft balance of fantasy, political commentary, sophisticated wit, and elegantly spare images expanded our sense of what comic strips can do. Barnaby revolved around a precocious five-year-old named Barnaby Baxter and his fairly godfather Jackeen J. O'Malley. Yet O'Malley, a cigar-chomping, bumbling con-artist and fast-talker, was not your typical protector. His grasp of...

Harold draws himself a castle in an enchanted garden and fills it with a king, a giant, a fairy - and himself!

With the aid of his purple crayon, Harold goes to the North Pole to get Santa ready for his journey.