![]() "I usually don't show people what I'm doing," he says. (The words are the hardest part for him, he says.) Over the course of about seven months, he creates detailed drawings, keeping his work private until he has finished. ![]() When he creates a book, he forms a picture in his mind and then wonders what might happen next. Van Allsburg loves to make readers wonder about the outcome of a story. In the story, a jungle-adventure board game comes to life, and the players have to deal with a lion, destructive monkeys and an erupting volcano.īut what happened after the book ends, Van Allsburg was often asked, when brothers Danny and Walter are seen walking off with the Jumanji game? Moviemakers had for a long time been asking for a sequel to "Jumanji," which became a successful 1995 film starring Robin Williams. ![]() Van Allsburg, of course, is not surprised. The 2002 book is very different from Van Allsburg's rich and colorful "The Polar Express" and the photo-like images of "Jumanji." So it might take some imagination to see how this 32-page book of charcoal-black pencil drawings on a textured background could become a sometimes-scary, special-effects space adventure. "They assume that people will go into bookstores and not recognize it right away," he says. And even fewer have a gold sticker proclaiming "Now a Major Motion Picture!"Īuthor-illustrator Chris Van Allsburg laughs loudly into the phone when this is pointed out. "Zathura" is easy to spot among children's picture books. ![]()
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