Chris Van Allsburg
RISD ’75 [Sculpture]
Chris Van Allsburg first beckoned readers into his enchanted imagination — a place where, “something strange or puzzling,” is sure to happen — with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (Houghton Mifflin, 1979). The string of books that followed (The Polar Express, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick and The Z Was Zapped, to name a few) sealed his reputation as a perennial favorite with both children and adults. In Zathura (2002), a two-dimensional game board unfolds into a three-dimensional world, enveloping two boys and their house and taking them on a trip through outer space and back in time. Among Van Allsburg’s numerous awards are Caldecott Medals for The Polar Express (1986) and Jumanji (1982), which was made into a feature film and heralded in The New York Times Book Review for its “subtle intelligence beyond the call of illustration.”
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