Chris Van Allsburg
Autore di The Polar Express
Sull'Autore
Considered to be one of the foremost authors and illustrators of surrealistic fantasy for children, Chris Van Allsburg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1949. He received his B. F. A. at the University of Michigan and his M. F. A. at the Rhode Island School of Design. He married Lisa Morrison mostra altro and currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Van Allsburg's work is highly praised for the excellent artisanship of his illustrations, which often have a surreal element. His first book, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979), concerning a lost dog found by a magician, and his second book, Jumanji (1981), about a strange board game that comes to life, brought him quick praise. Jumanji won the Caldecott Medal in 1982. The Polar Express (1985), Van Allsburg's most popular book, deals with the idea that the ability to believe in things beyond one's experiences helps to keep a person young. It also won a Caldecott Medal in 1986. Other books by Van Allsburg include The Z was Zapped, and Just a Dream, a story about a boy who learns to be ecological. Van Allsburg's sculptures have also been exhibited at many New York galleries. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Serie
Opere di Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express Holiday Gift Set Book DVD Keepsake Sleigh Bell CD & Collectible Poster (1985) 3 copie
Jumanji: Complete Series [1996 TV animation] — Autore — 3 copie
Poetry Writing Handbook c.1998 2 copie
The Polar express [computer file] : an animated retelling of the Caldecott award-winning book (1995) 1 copia
Z for Zephyr 1 copia
O Expresso Polar 1 copia
Shadow Book - The Polar Express 1 copia
Tàu Tốc Hành Bắc Cực 1 copia
Opere correlate
From Sea to Shining Sea A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (1993) — Illustratore — 679 copie
The Magic Journey Delux Storybook with Full-color Poster - The Polar Express - T — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949-06-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Michigan
Rhode Island School of Design (MFA) - Attività lavorative
- children's book author
illustrator - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award (Contemporary ∙ 2009)
Regina Medal (1993)
Utenti
Discussioni
Short story: American family injures a man who is winter personified in Name that Book (Dicembre 2015)
Recensioni
Liste
Witchy Fiction (1)
Five star books (1)
READ IN 2020 (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
Reading Rainbow (3)
Christmas Books (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 43
- Opere correlate
- 18
- Utenti
- 26,726
- Popolarità
- #778
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1,441
- ISBN
- 336
- Lingue
- 14
- Preferito da
- 37
"And Mr Einstein, who is the smartest man in the whole history of the world, he has proved -- absolutely proved -- that time is just another dimension, just like space. Time is what happens when you can go up and down, side to side, in and out, and before and after." So, tells Gilbert his incredulous friends Neils, Erwin and Emmy.
Like any good story, ” Another Time, Another Place ” by Cory Doctorow delivers on both, entertainment and depth. Within a setting we can picture vividly, the young protagonist and friends remind us poignantly of our own childhood. Its youthful actors are characteristically curious and inquisitive and such is their interaction with their wondrous world. Their nimble - unbiased by the established - minds make perceptions change with the power of their imagination, to having us worried whether, indeed, we have already succumbed to the most wide-spread of all adult-onset diseases, the calcification of thinking. If you are willing to dig deeper you will find layers of meanings buried within Cory Doctorow’s masterpiece. For when we finally get to the crux of the matter, the fundamental, underlying principle of the universe, we find ourselves not only questioning our own encrusted perceptions of reality but also in awe of a tapestry that only the intertwining strands of physics and analytic philosophy can weave – a cosmology that is more fantastic that any myth or folktale. - If our scientist and philosophers are right that is. Notwithstanding that, ultimately, “Another Time, Another Place”, does perhaps what matters most, it teaches us the value of the philosophic though experiment and admonishes us not to succumb to the one-tracked, monolithic procedural of academia. Scientific breakthroughs are enabled through paradigm shifts, denied without a fundamental change of perception and impossible to attain without a faculty of wonder.
Our hero Gilbert and the character of Emmy show us the contrast between flexibility and rigidness, the wonder of expanding the mind and bowing to the established. Unlike Emmy who represents the conservative, Gilbert is equality endowed with faculty of wonder and flexibility of perception when he makes himself experience time as space. In doing so he overcomes the common and unfortunately false perception that space is different from time and adopts the true physical reality of space-time according to Albert Einstein. This new perception opens a whole new avenue of possibility.
Imagine your mind can perceive the physics of space-time enabling you to travel in time just as we do in space. As your mind accepts and assimilates the similarity of space and time you may travel not only backwards in time but most importantly sideways.
To trigger Einstein's perception of space-time, Gilbert needs both, the faculty of wonder and perhaps a bit more mundane, a hand car and rails to make time analogous to space. To Gilberts delight his thought experiment becomes reality, and he finds that even though there are no pathways allowing continuous movement between the parallel rails of the multiverse - after all this is not Newton's perception of reality anymore but the Bohr-Einsteinian universe and beyond- akin to the teleporting discontinuous quantum-jumping electron he is able to make his own discontinuous jumps from handcar to handcar, from universe to universe. The realm of all the infinite alternative “what-might-have-beens”, in his grasp, the death of his beloved father, the motivating factor to his handcar journey, can be undone.
Last but not least, if the concepts and prospects within Doctorow’s short story appeal to you, you may want to give Jack Finney’s “Time and again” a try. Finney’s novel expands on Doctorow’s short story providing great entertainment scaffolded by Einstein’s concepts of relativity and space-time.… (altro)