American - Author | June 18, 1949 -
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg
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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
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The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.
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I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
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I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.
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I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
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Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
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It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
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It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
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As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
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I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.
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There's definitely a value in being literate.
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