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The Stranger is a children's book written in 1986 by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It tells a story of a stranger with no memory of who he is or where he is from. He recuperates in the home of a farmer and his family during the fall season. Plot. One fall day, while Farmer Bailey is riding down the road in his truck, he hears a thump.
Oct 28, 1986 · Starring a mysterious figure, whose identity is never truly revealed, The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg is a Mystery children’s book that details the mysterious appearing of a man who doesn’t seem to know who he is or where he is supposed to be.
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Oct 28, 1986 · Get immersed in the worlds of Chris Van Allsburg. The ants are tired of their humdrum life in the same ant hole, so they’re off to the strange new world of a kitchen in search of sugar crystals for their queen. When two ants stay behind and take a nap in the sugar bowl, they are in for a wild ride.
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When you were little did you used to think objects (or toys) were alive?In stories, what is it called when an object comes to life?List stories about strangers who come into the house. Did the strangers of these stories turn out to be good, bad or somewhere inbetween?The illustrations are rendered in coloured pencil, with a variety of sketching techniques. The trees look pointillist, and the sky contains long, continuous lines. PERIOD— as atemporal as possible, though the existence of technology such as a truck will necessarily place the story in time. More interesting than working out the exact ‘date’ of the s...
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Okay, this is unusual. Marketing copy gives readers a massive hint on how to read the text. Jack Frost, hmm. Perhaps it was Anne Rice, of all people, who first put this idea in readers’ heads with her review of The Strangerin the New York Times when it came out. (An interesting choice for reviewer — I can’t think of another example of a supernatural erotic novelist reviewing a children’s picture book.) Later, in a 2004 interview with Scholastic, Chris Van Allsburg was asked the identity of th...
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The story opens with a landscape bordered by trees. The dark trees convey an ominous tone, as if something is emerging from the woods. This works even though it is us, the viewer, coming out of the woods. Here are a few other examples.
Unusually for a picture book, this story has opened with an adult man as viewpoint character, but we will soon learn to see him as a ‘father’ rather than as ‘the farmer’. There is no clear ‘main character’ in this story as the viewpoint keeps shifting. Below is the image which switches from the father/farmer to the child. (Van Allsburg is a cinematic illustrator. Later, the camera will focus on the stranger, but from the girl’s point of view.) Whenever we meet a character looking through a fr...
People have personified the seasons for a long time, and imagined a ‘passing of the baton’. Perhaps the two women in the image below are the same person. Spring is often coded as youth, and winter as old age. In this way, seasons map onto the human life cycle. If you enjoyed the artwork in “The Stranger”, check out the British painter Simon Palmer....
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Sep 22, 2021 · The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg - YouTube. Michael Miehl. 240 subscribers. Subscribed. 204. 27K views 2 years ago. Of all the seasons, fall is one of my faves. Not to...
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Jan 17, 2012 · 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.
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Farmer Bailey thinks he's hit a deer while driving his truck, but in the middle of the road lies a man, an enigmatic stranger. He goes home with Farmer Bailey, his memory apparently gone. Weeks pass at the Bailey farm; the stranger seems happy to be around them, and helps with the harvest.
