![]() ![]() If you sell a book to Hollywood, you don't even worry about it. ![]() My own hopes for mystery, unpredictability, idiosyncrasy were largely unmet. Jumanji, 1981 (Caldecott Medal, National Book Award). Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji 30th Anniversary Edition: A Caldecott Award Winner Hardcover Picture Book, Octoby Chris Van Allsburg (Author), Robin Williams (Reader) 1,298 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Give this and thousands of kid-friendly books with Amazon Kids+ Audiobook 0. "I think most of the audience, if it notices at all, will think, 'Gee, with $70 million, couldn't they have hired one more actor?' "īut as an action movie for kids, he says, "It's pretty successful. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, 1979 (Caldecott Honor, Boston GlobeHorn Book Award). "In my opinion, that's a superficial attempt to inject some cheap psychology - it's not quite the same as writing a screenplay in which the issues of father and son relationships are discussed."īut he also wonders if anyone will notice. The business, for example, of the same actor (Jonathan Hyde) playing a young man's father and a ferocious white hunter trying to kill the grown-up version of the same young man. If you nudge him, he'll depart slightly from his party line and discuss some things that he perhaps didn't think highly of in the film. ![]() It sinks deep in your brain and stays there. His work has something of the magic clarity that Rousseau's sleeping guitar player being watched by a lion boasts. It's typical of the Van Allsburg technique: unbelievably refined realist technique expressing an idea that is basically non-rational and in some way unknowable. ![]()
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