"Harold and the Purple Crayon" is a story written by Crockett Johnson that was first released in 1955. It's about a boy who embarks on a wild imaginative adventure that takes place at night.

By itself, the opening 10-minute salvo of Harold and the Purple Crayon — Carlos Saldanha’s live-action feature debut — is a thing of rare beauty, a near-perfect stand-alone preface that ...

At least in “Purple Crayon,” the first of seven books about Harold, there is no sign of a parent, though Harold does have a home and a bed. (A mother is mentioned in his second adventure ...