{"id":208,"date":"2011-11-24T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T19:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/?p=208"},"modified":"2011-11-26T03:54:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T03:54:47","slug":"chris-van-allsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/2011\/11\/24\/chris-van-allsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Van Allsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/files\/2011\/11\/harris.bmp\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-210\" title=\"harris\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/files\/2011\/11\/harris.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday evening, November 9th I went to see Chris Van Allsburg at a special event for teachers and teacher-librarians. He&#8217;s the author and illustrator of many award-winning books such as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Polar Express<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jumanji <\/span>. One of his most popular books is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Mysteries of Harris Burdick<\/span> which I read to Ms.Bastone&#8217;s grade 4s. They were absolutely fascinated by the book. Chris&#8217;s new book is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Chronicles of Harris Burdick<\/span> inwhich famous authors have taken\u00a0an image with its title and sentence from the Mysteries books and have written a short story\u00a0to it. If you&#8217;ve read the Mysteries book, perhaps you can write a story from one of the pictures and I&#8217;ll post it on this blog!\u00a0 To find out more about Chris Van Allsburg and his books, here&#8217;s a link to\u00a0his website\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvanallsburg.com\/flash.html\">http:\/\/www.chrisvanallsburg.com\/flash.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday evening, November 9th I went to see Chris Van Allsburg at a special event for teachers and teacher-librarians. He&#8217;s the author and illustrator of many award-winning books such as\u00a0The Polar Express and Jumanji . One of his most <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/2011\/11\/24\/chris-van-allsburg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Chris Van Allsburg<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/seaforth-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}