Ages 4 - 8

Here is a book from this two-time Caldecott Medal-winning author and artist that is sure to bring out the storyteller in any child – or adult! Van Allsburg introduces us to this collection of pictures by “explaining” that they were left with an editor friend of his by an artist named Harris Burdick. It seems Burdick had written 14 stories he wanted to get published and to entice the editor, he left with him 14 full-page stunning black-and-white illustrations, each with a caption for the drawing and with the title of the story it was to accompany. Unfortunately, Burdick never returned to give the editor his stories. All that are left are these 14 incredible drawings with their evocative captions and imagination-stirring story titles. Your young readers and listeners will be captivated by these haunting, mysterious, and beautiful drawings as they develop their own stories to go with them – and so solve the mysteries that Harris Burdick left. One of our absolutely favorite imagination stretchers!