- Children's stories, American, Cuentos infantiles estadounidenses, Mystery and detective stories, Plot-your-own stories
Presents a series of loosely related drawings each accompanied by a title and a caption which the reader may use to make up his or her own story.
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Spare, open-ended, plot-driven and contemplative.
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Van Allsburg
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 31
- Publisher
- Ecole des loisirs, Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, Secretaria de Educacion Publica
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781592880096
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- Children's stories, American
- Cuentos infantiles estadounidenses
- Mystery and detective stories
- Plot-your-own stories
- Trama tus propios cuentos
- Short Stories
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- Spanish: Grades 2-3
- Children's fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Spanish language materials
- Livres dont vous êtes le héros
“I first saw the drawing in this book a year ago, in the home of a man named Peter Wenders.”
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
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