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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6
Average rating: 3.0 of 5
harold:under the sea 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 6 people found this review helpful.
Harold and his purple crayon are back. This time Harold draws an undersea adventure for himself and his dog Lilic. They encounter many things while on the adventure such as unique fish, an underwater cave, a sunken pirate ship and more.
Just Awful 1 out of 5 stars.
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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.
Editorial Review:
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!
