Philip Nel (Universi University Distinguished Professor of English

Gebundenes Buch

How to Draw the World

Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's Classic

Beschreibung

This is a biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature color, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer, and countless other creative people to become artists. Published 70 years ago, Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon is a small book about big ideas--ideas about childhood, creativity, politics, psychology, art, and reality itself. In thirty brief chapters, this book explores those ideas, illuminates the creative process, and offers a primer on how picture books work.

Autor

Philip Nel is University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University and the author or co-editor of 13 books, including: Keywords for Children's Literature (with Nina Christensen and Lissa Paul) and a double-biography of the children's writers Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss. His Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature and the Need for Diverse Books was one of the catalysts for Dr. Seuss Enterprises' March 2021 decision to stop publishing six Dr. Seuss books that contain racist imagery.

Produktdetails

• Children's Classics Critically
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780197777596
• ISBN-10: 0197777597
• Artikelnr.: 70527699