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• BY: LEBRON F. KING
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
WHY I CHOSE THIS GIFTED PERSON
This gifted person is cool because he loves art just like me! I even like his books. I like to illustrate and write books like him!
EARLY LIFE
He started doing art as a kid. When he was a little kid he thought his friends were better at art than him, so he became an artist when he was a grown up.
He lived on a farm and had to walk to school every day. He moved a lot. One of the streets he lived on looked like the street on the front cover of the book, The Polar Express.
ATTRIBUTES
• He is good at illustrating and writing. He went to college to learn to be an artist. He first studied sculpture. In college at The University of Michigan, he thought other students had better art than he did, but he studied and got better.
GIFTS AND TALENTS
• He was creative. He made books and characters that no none had ever made before. These illustrations and books make us use our imagination.
EPISODE OR STORY
• He is most known for writing and illustrating The Polar Express in 1985. He won a Caldecott Medal for this book and it was also made into a movie in 2004. He came up with the idea for his book by thinking about a train in the woods and asked himself where would the train go if a boy were on it.
CONTRIBUTIONS
• He writes book and cartoons to help us use our imagination.
• He has written twenty-three books.
CHALLENGES
• It was hard work to learn to draw awesome pictures. He's good at making art, books, and cartoons. When he was a little kid he would build things with his hands. When he went to college he went to art class to get better at art.
WHAT WERE HIS MOST FAMOUS BOOKS?
• The Polar Express• A story of a little boy riding on a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
He meets Santa and the elves and then returns to his home with a bell.
• Jumanji• A story of two kids who find a game in the park. They take it home and
play it. Every move made in the game comes alive in their house. They eventually return the game to the park before their mom comes back home.
BOOKS THAT WON AWARDS
Book Award
The Polar Express Caldecott Medal
The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi Caldecott runner-up
Jumanji Caldecott Medal
REFERENCES
http://hmhbooks.com/chrisvanallsburg/about-chris.html
http://polarexpress.com/author
