Children’s Book of the Week: Chris Van Allsburg’s The Stranger

Chris Van Allsburg is up there on my list of favorite children’s author/illustrators. You will certainly recognize some of his books which include Jumanji and The Polar Express.

Chris’s books give readers that happy/sad feeling akin to nostalgia, and are almost always insist on awesome feats of the imagination, but The Stranger, one of his more melancholy books, is simply about a mysterious man who arrives at a farm after losing his memory. The tale has hints of fantasy, but they are more subtle than jungle apes and trips to the north pole.

As usual, the illustrations are perhaps the most beautiful part of Van Allsburg’s tales:

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