Crockett Johnson, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-375-82288-9
Ellen's Lion (1959) by Harold and the Purple Crayon author Crockett Johnson, chronicles the conversations-in 12 stories-between an imaginative child and her stuffed animal. Johnson makes the most of his three-color palette, with scenes in...
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Crocket Johnson. Fantagraphics, $34.99 (336 p) ISBN 1-60699-522-7
Young Barnaby Baxter wishes on a star in hopes of gaining a Fairy Godmother. Instead, Barnaby gets a cigar-chomping, squat little man named Mister O’Malley who claims to be an expert Fairy Godfather. O’Malley is at best an inept Fairy Godfather, but
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Crockett Johnson, Author, Crockett Johnson, Illustrator HarperTrophy $6.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-443347-1
First published in 1956, this picture book chronicles the further adventures of the puckish hero of Harold and the Purple Crayon. Ages 3-6. (Feb.)
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Crockett Johnson, Author, Philip Nel, Afterword by, Maurice Sendak, Other . Front Street $18.95 (60p) ISBN 978-1-932425-27-7
The publication of Johnson's (Harold and the Purple Crayon
) deceptively simple story marks the debut appearance of this work in precisely the way Johnson conceived of it. (A version was published in 1965 as Castles in the Sand
with...
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