This New York City cartoonist worked as the art director for magazines and made his debut into the world of children's books when he illustrated "The Carrot Seed," written by his wife Ruth Krauss in 1945. He wrote and illustrated his most famous book in 1955, about a toddler with a magic writing implement, and it has never gone out of print. He was bald and said he drew characters without hair "because it's so much easier."There were other book in the series, but none did as well as the original. The book is Harold and the Purple Crayon and the author/illustrator is known as Crockett Johnson, but his real name was David Johnson Leisk.
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