- Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Imagination, fiction
A boy thinks he is the best boat driver.But one stormy day he goes off sailing and crashes.When he wakes up he finds himself on an island.While he is there he learnes how to fly a boat.So the next morning he flies his boat back to where he came from.But he crashes.No one believed he flew the boat but one kid.
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Intimate, effortless, spare and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Chris Van Allsburg
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Juventud, Books for Young Readers Cloth, Kawade Shobō Shinsha
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, Spanish, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9781849395434
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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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