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Harold and the Purple Crayon: Under the Sea (Festival Readers) | 
| Author: Liza Baker
Publisher: HarperFestival
List Price: $3.99
Buy New: $1.20
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Seller: thermite-media
Rating:  7 reviews
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.1
ISBN: 006000178X
EAN: 9780060001780
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
It is a hot night and Harold cannot sleep, so he grabs his purple crayon and draws a swimming hole. With his dog, Lilac, by his side, Harold finds more than just a way to cool down -- he meets fish of every shape and size, and even discovers some pirate treasure!
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 We love Harold! January 15, 2010
Kelly Moneymaker (Los Angeles)
My daughter adores Harold, so we read this one several times per week. It is more colorful than the original Harold books, so that may be why she enjoys this one so much!
 Pointless purple crayon August 25, 2008
Mommy23 (Austin, TX USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The whole point of "Harold and the Purple Crayon" is that Harold creates what he needs and wants with his purple crayon. Therefore, in the original series of books, with the exception of Harold himself, everything is only a purple outline, because he has drawn it with his purple crayon. In this book, the drawings are in color, with only a purple outline around the multi-colored drawings. Is Harold now carrying around a 10 pack of colored pencils? How does this book demonstrate that Harold is drawing anything with his purple crayon? It doesn't make sense. The magic is absent. How sad that we think children need color more than imagination. They've taken away the entire plot and purpose of the book. "Harold and the Purple Crayon" was one of my favorite books as a small child, and I still read it to my three children, but sadly, this is nothing like the original.
Delightful December 18, 2007
K. Richards (Olympia, WA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this delightful children's book for my grandchildren because they love to have me read all the Harold and the Purple Crayon books to them. They were delighted, as was I.
Just Awful November 10, 2007
OD (Earth)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you love the playful adventures and magical places Harold creates using only his imagination and a purple crayon, don't buy these knock-offs. We own every Crockett Johnson book, and unfortunately bought several of these copy-cats. They do not hold a crayon to the simplicity and creativity of the originals.
I wanted to give it zero stars, but one is the minimum.
I have read the original Harold books to my two-year old so many times, we both have most of them memorized. He never tires of them. So I bought three of this new series to expand our repertoire. We read each one once, and he never reached for them again.
In the originals, Harold creates fabulous tales and worlds with one continuous stroke of his purple crayon against a blank canvas. In these books, Harold moves through a fully-rendered, poorly drawn, colorized, real world. Harold does not even whip out his crayon until page ten in Under the Sea. He uses the crayon occasionally as a kind of super power/magic wand to draw objects to get himself out of trouble. He is inexplicably (annoyingly) followed everywhere by a dog named Lilac, who adds nothing to the story. In addition, the vocabulary and scenes are obscure and unfamiliar subject matter for a young child. Here's an excerpt where Harold and the dog are in a submarine:
They saw catfish.
Lilac barked.
Then they saw dogfish.
Lilac wagged her tail.
A sawfish swam toward them.
Using its long, jagged nose,
the sawfish sawed a hole
in the side of the submarine!
Thinking quickly,
Harold drew scuba gear
for himself and Lilac.
The lyrical cadence of Crockett's verse is missing from these books. If you own all the Crockett books, treasure them, and read them again and again. Then buy some Suess.
more adventures with Harold July 29, 2004
N. Uzoff (Austin, TX)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Neither my daughter nor I can tell that this is not by Crockett Johnson. Harold finds a unique way to cool off on a hot summer night.
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