Armed with a purple crayon and plenty of imagination ... Past"), paying homage to artistic masterpieces ("Harold the Artiste") and living as a Wild West outlaw ("Cowboy Harold").

To the scroll of children's-book adaptations that squander the very spirit of what they should be doing, we can now add "Harold and the Purple Crayon ... here, walking around in what looks ...

Harold and the Purple Crayon, the famed 1955 children’s picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release. The picture book, written and illustrated by ...