The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

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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. Carry out an investigation into the differing responses to Chris Van Allsburg’s illustrations dependent of viewers’ ages, ranging from young children, to peers and then adults within the school But what can a picture of a nun quietly sitting in a chair floating in a cathedral have to do with a caption that says, "THE SEVEN CHAIRS: The fifth one ended up in France?"

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We looked through this in bed and the nephew made up some stories to go with the pictures. For not having robots in the pictures, they had a whole lot of monsters in them. The next day, I made some copies of the pictures and we sat down and they had to write a story based off one of the pictures. I had to scribe for the nephew. The book is available in a Portfolio Edition which includes another image/caption pair from the story "Missing in Venice". Chris Van Allsburg is one of my must-collect illustrators, as I just love his work. He combines detail with imagination and he has never let me down. While I still rank Queen Of The Falls as his best, this mysterious book of wordless stories comes very close. Este es un libro con micro cuentos increíbles, acompañados de ilustraciones asombrosas. Todo me dejó perplejo, las 14 historias y los 14 dibujos. Todo es maravilloso.Me recordó lo mágicas que pueden ser las formas y las palabras cuando de usan correctamente o en conjunto. Instead of having each student use an individual notebook, create a class list of ideas on chart paper to which students can refer. Instead of asking them to write stories based on ideas the class comes up with, you may want to have very young children tell the stories out loud. You can take dictation, and the students can illustrate their stories—or you can simply leave them as oral storytelling experiences. Not all the stories are scary, but many of them have at least some creepiness to them, which certainly fits the tone of the drawings and the overall mystery. It made for pretty good Halloween reading, sort of like reading a collection of Ray Bradbury's stories. If you've got younger kids, you may want to preview the book before giving it to them — as with Bradbury's books, a few of these may send a few shivers down your spine, and would be liable to keep my seven-year-old up at night.

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Following the letter, fourteen mysterious and haunting images are reproduced, each with a title and a suggestive caption. Next to a drawing of a boy fast asleep in his bedroom with five small, round lights hovering in the air above him are the title “Archie Smith, Boy Wonder” and the caption “A tiny voice asked, ‘Is he the one?'” An image of a huge ocean liner pushing into a narrow canal is titled “Missing in Venice” and captioned “Even with her mighty engines in reverse, the ocean liner was pulled further and further into the canal.” The picture from “The Third-Floor Bedroom”, accompanied by the words “It all began when someone left the window open,” shows a room that looks completely normal but for the wallpaper bird that seems to be coming to life and flying off the wall! I must say that Under the Rug is the one that unnerves me the most. What is under the rug??? We will never know, hahaha).

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Each picture-and-caption pair is more mysterious and suggestive than the last, and will provide children and adults alike with hours of entertainment. A man and a boy are on a bridge at night. The man is holding a lantern and a schooner is beginning to appear on the water from the fog.