Chronicles of Harris Burdick : Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

English

ISBN: 0547548109

EAN: 9780547548104

Category: Juvenile Fiction / General/Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Release Date: 12/13/2011

Age Range: 10-14

Synopsis: One Pulitzer Prize, five Newbery Medals, three Newbery Honors, two Caldecott Medals, one Caldecott Honor, three National Book Awards, seven National Book Award nominations, and five Coretta Scott King Awards. This is only a partial list of all accolades earn by the contributors of this book. This inspired collection of short stories is based on the original illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg in his esteemed and mysterious The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, originally published in 1984, and features many remarkable, best-selling authors in the worlds of both adult and childrens 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 Allsburgs Harris Burdick illustrations have evoked such wonderment and imagination since Harris Burdicksoriginal 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 readers brain for a backstory--a threaded tale behind the image. In this book, weve collected some of the best storytellers to spin them.

Awards: Publishers Weekly Best Childrens Books – null 

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Chronicles of Harris Burdick : Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.88 inches

Width: 8.0 inches

Length: 10.0 inches

Weight: 31.11 oz

Pages: 208