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The stranger

Title
The stranger / Chris Van Allsburg.
Author
Van Allsburg, Chris
Publication
  • Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
  • ©1986
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Additional Authors
Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.
Description
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 24 x 28 cm
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.
Subject
  • Autumn > Juvenile fiction
  • Weather > Juvenile fiction
  • Seasons > Juvenile fiction
  • Autumn > Fiction
  • Autumn
  • Seasons
  • Weather
Genre/Form
  • Picture books.
  • Fantasy fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile works.
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 (note)
  • 640
Call Number
JFF 87-405
ISBN
  • 0395423317
  • 9780395423318
LCCN
86015235
OCLC
13861072
Author
Van Allsburg, Chris, author, illustrator.
Title
The stranger / Chris Van Allsburg.
Imprint
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
Copyright Date
©1986
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Audience
640 Lexile.
Study Program
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.7 0.5 69065.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.5 2 Quiz: 15740.
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Publisher description
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Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.
Research Call Number
JFF 87-405
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