Harold and the Purple Crayon
originally aired on HBO
Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 children's picture book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson. The story is written in third-person point-of-view, and follows a young boy on an imaginative adventure through the night. The protagonist, Harold, is a curious four-year-old boy who, with his magic purple crayon, has the power to create a world of his own simply by drawing it.