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Chris Van Allsburg
Genre:
Childrens' Fiction, Fantasy
Description[]
Born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan he was the second child of Doris and Richard Van Allsburg. He began his string of success with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi which won him his first Caldecott Medal. Since then, Van Allsburg has written and illustrated over fifteen children's books. His drawings are know to be set in a children's height perspective, particularly from their viewpoint.
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Parental Guidence[]
Reading Age: 8+
Reading Aloud Age: 7+
List of Books[]
- The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979)
- Jumanji (1981)
- Ben's Dream (1982)
- The Wreck of the Zephyr (1983)
- The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (1984)
- The Polar Express (1985)
- The Stranger (1986)
- The Z Was Zapped (1987)
- Two Bad Ants (1988)
- Just a Dream (1990)
- The Wretched Stone (1991)
- The Widow's Broom (1992)
- The Sweetest Fig (1993)
- Bad Day at Riverbend (1995)
- Zathura (2002)
- Probuditi! (2006)
- Queen Of the Falls(2011)
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About the Holiday
March 29, 1848 was a cold day. How cold? It was so frigid that rivers feeding Niagara Falls turned to ice and reduced the flow of water to such an extent that Niagara Falls’ 3,160 tons of water per second came to a halt. Today, locals—and weather aficionados—remember this auspicious natural phenomenon.
By Chris Van Allsburg
Niagara Falls, spanning the border of Canada and New York state, has always attracted crowds of visitors who come to marvel over the roaring avalanche of water as it “drops from a height that is as tall as a seventeen-story building” and sends “up an endless cloud of mist at it crashes onto the rocks and water below.” But on October 24, 1901 the crowd was there for a very different reason. What was it? Well, that story begins back in Bay City, Michigan, where Annie Edson Taylor, “a short, plump, and fussy sixty-two-year-old widow” had just closed her charm school and was worried about how she’d pay the bills.
Image and text copyright Chris Van Allsburg, courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
She mulled and pondered, pondered and mulled her situation. Then she saw a newspaper article about Niagara Falls, and “like a cork popping from a champagne bottle” she had the idea to make her fame and fortune by going over the