From the award-winning author of Jumanji and The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg challenges young readers to use their creativity and imagination in this one-of-a-kind book that asks readers to finish the story. This original picture book will be a welcome creative writing and storytelling tool for children and adults of all ages. Chris Van Allsburg is one of my must-collect illustrators, as I just love his work. He combines detail with imagination and he has never let me down. While I still rank Queen Of The Falls as his best, this mysterious book of wordless stories comes very close. Invite students to create their mysterious drawings and captions by providing a caption for them to create their own drawing Byrne, Terry (June 22, 2008). "They are hoping for a storybook ending". The Boston Globe . Retrieved November 18, 2011.

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Este es un libro con micro cuentos increíbles, acompañados de ilustraciones asombrosas. Todo me dejó perplejo, las 14 historias y los 14 dibujos. Todo es maravilloso. illustrations. 14 captions. A picture book, then? Yes, but each scene is a loaded gun and you are the trigger. Model for your students either on the overhead or on chart paper how you might go about beginning a list of story ideas. “I might ask myself, ‘What ideas have been bouncing around in my head lately that I haven’t had a chance to write?'” you may say — thinking aloud so your students can observe the process you are going through. Write a couple of ideas, modeling how you don’t necessarily need to write complete sentences when you are making notes to yourself. “A boy finds magic shoes in his grandmother’s attic — they make it so he can jump over trees.” “A little girl’s collection of plastic farm animals comes to life after midnight.” Use your own story-starter ideas to inspire your students to think creatively when recording their own ideas.After having practiced this activity as a class, divide your students into groups of four or five and have them choose a different idea from the book to tell as a small group. Have groups present their stories to one another.

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After you have finished the story (and don’t worry if it is not completely cohesive and brilliant—storytelling in this fashion takes a lot of practice!), debrief with your students. What was hard for them? What was easy? What was fun? Reinforce the idea that they have created a brand-new story together as a community, starting with only a tiny seed of an idea presented by Chris Van Allsburg. Tell them that you will be practicing this activity again, using the same story idea. Desde los títulos de las historias hasta los cuidados en los detalles de las ilustraciones. Un libro encantador que tanto un niño como un adulto pueden leer y quedar maravillados. Following the letter, fourteen mysterious and haunting images are reproduced, each with a title and a suggestive caption. Next to a drawing of a boy fast asleep in his bedroom with five small, round lights hovering in the air above him are the title “Archie Smith, Boy Wonder” and the caption “A tiny voice asked, ‘Is he the one?'” An image of a huge ocean liner pushing into a narrow canal is titled “Missing in Venice” and captioned “Even with her mighty engines in reverse, the ocean liner was pulled further and further into the canal.” The picture from “The Third-Floor Bedroom”, accompanied by the words “It all began when someone left the window open,” shows a room that looks completely normal but for the wallpaper bird that seems to be coming to life and flying off the wall!But what can a picture of a nun quietly sitting in a chair floating in a cathedral have to do with a caption that says, "THE SEVEN CHAIRS: The fifth one ended up in France?" Katie McDonnell is an educator of fourteen years who enjoys finding new ways to teach outside the classroom walls. She graduated from Westfield State University with a Bachelor of Science in Education specializing in Elementary Education and Liberal Arts. Mrs. McDonnell taught for 14 years in Florida in grades second through sixth in all subject areas and one year as the Media Specialist. She has a professional teaching license from the state of Florida with certification in ESOL K-12, Elementary Education 1-6, Middle Grades Integrated Curriculum 5-9, and Educational Media Specialist K-12. This is not a typical picture book because beyond the introduction is there is no story. Unlike a regular narrative with a clear beginning, middle and end that focuses on one or a group of character, this story is a collection of captivating illustrations that don't connect to each other. The book is available in a Portfolio Edition which includes another image/caption pair from the story "Missing in Venice". Enticed to come up with their own endings, readers will marvel at the mystery behind these lasting drawings and the charm of an everchanging narrative.

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We looked through this in bed and the nephew made up some stories to go with the pictures. For not having robots in the pictures, they had a whole lot of monsters in them. The next day, I made some copies of the pictures and we sat down and they had to write a story based off one of the pictures. I had to scribe for the nephew.Here's my suggestion: if you're a fan of the original and you've heard of at least a few of the authors, you should definitely get this book. It's a big book, sized so that they didn't have to shrink down the illustrations, and it's gorgeous to look at. You may not like all of the tales in the book, but you're sure to enjoy several of them. But get your kids the original (or the portfolio) and don't let them read this until they're a little older — mostly because you don't want to take away their chance of discovering the stories they have inside them before they read these. There is much to discover in Van Allsburg’s sepia tinted, almost photographic illustrations, which complement the story well Es un libro interesante y que motiva a crear. Un libro que se construye en las reflexiones con las que se intenta relacionar, por un lado, las curiosas, oscuras y únicas ilustraciones, y por el otro, los misteriosos e inconexos títulos de los cuentos perdidos. I read it when I was 9 or 10 years old for a school project. I remember being really creeped out by the pictures, but also really fascinated. I recently discovered it again, and it's just as eerie as I remember it to be. Each one is creepy and strange and there's so much ambiguity and ah. So cool. So much imagination. I love it.

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Write new captions to go with the illustrations. How do the new captions change your interpretation of the pictures? In the picture 'Archie Smith, Boy Wonder' we can see orbs floating and apparently speaking. In 'Just Dessert' the pumpkin is glowing with an otherworldly light. Science FictionChris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg. His sister Karen was born in 1947.