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Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
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Classical in form, intimate, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Van Allsburg
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- L'Ecole des loisirs, Amer School Pub, Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Chinese, English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9781849394215
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“"Now remember," Mother said, "your father and I are bringing some guests by after the opera, so please keep the house neat?"”
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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