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Author Van Allsburg, Chris, author, illustrator.

Title The stranger / Chris Van Allsburg.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
©1986

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library – Children’s Picture Book Collection  JE VAN ALLSBURG    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  STORIES E VAN    DUE 11-14-12 Assumed Lost
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  STORIES E VAN c.2  Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  E ORANGE VANALLSB    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J PBOR VAN ALLSBURG    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J VAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  FAVORITES JJ VAN ALLSBURG    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Children's Department  FAVORITES JJ VAN ALLSBURG    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Children's Department  JE VAN ALLSBURG    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  JE V FAVORITES    Check Shelf

Description 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Note Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
Audience 640 Lexile.
Summary The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.7 0.5 69065.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.5 2 Quiz: 15740.
Awards Kentucky Bluegrass Award
Subject Autumn -- Juvenile fiction.
Weather -- Juvenile fiction.
Seasons -- Juvenile fiction.
Autumn -- Fiction.
Fantasy.
Autumn. (OCoLC)fst00824216
Seasons. (OCoLC)fst01110447
Weather. (OCoLC)fst01173087
Fantasy.
Farmers -- Fiction.
Indexed Term Imprints 20th century 1986
Genre/Form Fantasy fiction -- Juvenile.
Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Picture books. (OCoLC)fst01726789
Picture books.
Fantasy fiction.
Juvenile literature -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1986.
Dust jackets (Binding)
Added Author Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.
ISBN 0395423317
9780395423318
0758737149
9780758737144
0329044699
9780329044695
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