Original quarter black cloth, purple and white paper pictorial boards. Besides becoming immediate bestsellers, the minimalist Harold books - simultaneously simple and profound - have become an influential favorite of many other artists and authors: in his 1982 acceptance speech for the Caldecott Award for JUMANJI, Chris Van Allsburg explicitly thanks "Harold, for his purple crayon" Maurice Sendak praised the "supreme inventiveness" of Harold Rita Dove names Harold in her poem "Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967." Quite scarce in collectible condition.
In this installment, Harold experiences many highlights of a circus visit, from elephants and lions to trapeze and lemonade, all through the creative power of his purple crayon. First printing of the fifth book in the Harold series of mid-century meta-picture books. The same economy that informs Johnsonâ s art permeates his text he writes so concisely of Haroldâ s moonlight stroll that his style perfectly echoes the clarity of his boldly outlined cartoon illustrationsâ (Silvey, 355).įirst edition. From page to page, the thick, firm, purple mark delineates Haroldâ s actions against the stark white background so effectively and ingeniously that the crayon is as much a character as Harold. â With the fewest of lines, Johnson depicts Harold as a toddler clad in sleepers, his chubby hand gripping a fat plum-colored crayon. Crockett Johnsonâ "a pen name for David Johnson Lieskâ "was â a cartoonist whose simplest, sparest and boldest outlines produced unforgettable, gently humorous and always endearing caricaturesâ ¦ His natural gift for drawing and writing from a young childâ s viewpoint enabled him to craft more than 20 juvenile books,â including this, his most popular one.
Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. First edition of the fifth book in the author's beloved series.
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