The Chronicles of Harris Burdick Amazing Authors Tell the Tales An inspired collection of short stories by an all star cast of best selling storytellers based on the thought provoking illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick For than t

An inspired collection of short stories by an all star cast of best selling storytellers based on the thought provoking illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick For than twenty five years, the illustrations in the extraordinary Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg have intrigued and entertained readers of all ages ThousandsAn inspired collection of short stories by an all star cast of best selling storytellers based on the thought provoking illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick For than twenty five years, the illustrations in the extraordinary Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg have intrigued and entertained readers of all ages Thousands of children have been inspired to weave their own stories to go with these enigmatic pictures Now we ve asked some of our very best storytellers to spin the tales Enter The Chronicles of Harris Burdick to gather this incredible compendium of stories mysterious, funny, creepy, poignant, these are tales you won t soon forget This inspired collection of short stories features many remarkable, best selling authors in the worlds of both adult and children s literature Sherman Alexie, M.T Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, Cory Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Walter Dean Myers, Linda Sue Park, Louis Sachar, Jon Scieszka, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Van Allsburg himself Van Allsburg s Harris Burdick illustrations have evoked such wonderment and imagination since Harris Burdick s original publication in 1984 many have speculated or have woven their own stories to go with his images More than ever, the illustrations send off their eerie call for text and continue to compel and pick at the reader s brain for a backstory a threaded tale behind the image In this book, we ve collected some of the best storytellers to spin them.
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[PDF] Download Ë The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales | by Ç Chris Van Allsburg Lois Lowry Kate DiCamillo M.T. Anderson Louis Sachar Stephen King Tabitha King Jon Scieszka
172 Chris Van Allsburg Lois Lowry Kate DiCamillo M.T. Anderson Louis Sachar Stephen King Tabitha King Jon Scieszka
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Title: [PDF] Download Ë The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales | by Ç Chris Van Allsburg Lois Lowry Kate DiCamillo M.T. Anderson Louis Sachar Stephen King Tabitha King Jon Scieszka
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Chris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg His sister Karen was born in 1947 Chris s paternal grandfather, Peter, owned and operated a creamery, a place where milk was turned into butter, cream, cottage cheese, and ice cream It was named East End Creamery and after they bottled the milk and made the other products they delivered it to homes all around Grand Rapids in yellow and blue trucks When Chris was born, his family lived in an old farm house next door to the large brick creamery building It was a very old house that, like the little house in Virginia Lee Burton s story, had once looked over farmland But by 1949, the house was surrounded by buildings and other houses Chris s father ran the dairy with Chris s three uncles after his grandfather Peter retired When Chris was three years old, his family moved to a new house at the edge of Grand Rapids that was part of a development a kind of planned neighborhood, that was still being built There remained many open fields and streams and ponds where a boy could catch minnows and frogs, or see a firefly at night It was about a mile and a half to Breton Downs School, which Chris walked to every day and attended until 6th grade, when the Van Allsburg family moved again The next house they lived in was an old brick Tudor Style house in East Grand Rapids It was a street that looked like the street on the cover of The Polar Express The houses were all set back the same distance from the street Between the street and the sidewalk grew enormous Elm trees whose branches reached up and touched the branches of the trees on the other side of the street Chris moved to this street with his mom, dad, sister, and two Siamese cats One named Fafner and the other name Eloise Chris went to junior and senior high school in East Grand Rapids He didn t take art classes during this time His interests and talents seemed to be in the area of math and science.