Download or read book How to Draw the World written by Philip Nel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.