by Chris Van Allsburg*****
Chris Van Allsburg is an amazing illustrator and has won the Caldecott Medal twice (Jumanji in 1982 and The Polar Express in 1986.) What I love about this book is not just the awesome illustrations, but the way they spark the reader's imagination. The book begins with a fictional letter of introduction from the author/illustrator. It tells of a mysterious encounter one book publisher had with a man named Harris Burdick, who leaves a sample of artwork for his stories. Burdick never returns for the mysterious drawings. The pages that follow are the collection of drawings that are so bizarre and intriguing, that they inspire the reader to come to his own conclusions about these untold stories.
The concept was a little beyond my three and five year-old, but they still had fun looking at the unusual pictures. I definitely want this one for my own library.
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