Les chroniques de Harris Burdick

Chris Van Allsburg

310 pages

Résumé

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 the accolades earned 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 children's literature. Van Allsburg's Harris Burdick illustrations have evoked such wonderment and imagination sinceHarris Burdick'soriginal 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 reader's brain for a backstorya threaded tale behind the image. In this book, we've collected some of the best storytellers to spin them.Contents:Introduction / by Lemony Snicket --Archie Smith, Boy Wonder / by Tabitha King --Under the rug / by Jon Scieszka --A strange day in July / by Sherman Alexie --Missing in Venice / by Gregory Maguire --Another place, another time / by Cory Doctorow --Uninvited guests / by Jules Feiffer --The harp / by Linda Sue Park --Mr. Linden's library / by Walter Dean Myers --The seven chairs / by Lois Lowry --The third-floor bedroom / by Kate DiCamillo --Just desert / by M.T. Anderson --Captain Tory / by Louis Sachar --Oscar and Alphonse: the Farkas Conjecture / by Chris Van Allsburg --The house on Maple Street / by Stephen King --Original introduction to The mysteries of Harris Burdick / by Chris Van Allsburg.