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The Stranger

by Chris Van Allsburg

3.99 · rating details · 888 ratings · 136 reviews

The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published October 28th 1986 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Oct 26, 2011

Al James rated it

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The Stranger was a very interesting read. The story is about a man who was hit by a car and is then found by farmer Bailey. The stranger soon becomes a part of the Bailey family and the story tells of his time with them. I really liked how the mystery of the stranger kept my interest in the book hooked from the beginning to the end because of how the story is told by the perspective of the Bailey family and not from the Stranger himself. I also like how the feel of the subtleness of the book flo...more

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Sep 25, 2011

Morgan Johnston rated it

This book was pretty good. It correlates a presence of a stranger and a weird happening in weather. The illustrations definitely added to this story. For example, when it showed the Stranger blowing on the green leaf. It didn't mention the leaf turning orange in his hand, but the picture on the page illustrated it.

I also appreciated the use of foreshadowing in this book. For example, when it talks about the stranger in the book blowing on the soup-- the wife gets cold. The strangers ...more

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Sep 20, 2011

Kylie Walter rated it

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The Stranger was a very serious book. It is the story about a man named Farmer Bailey who one day accidentally his something or someone with his car. He realizes that it was a person and he picks him up takes him to the hospital and has the doctors check him out. Then they find out that the stranger can not remember who he is or where he comes from. Farmer Bailey takes him in and the stranger lives with the Bailey's. While he is living there they all begin to relaize things that are different a...more

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Sep 18, 2011

Brittany Young rated it

The stranger was a very interesting book to me. It had a nice air of mystery to it. The cover seemed so interesting, but also so simple. There was nothing on the darkly colored back cover, and a thick boarder the same color as the back cover around the image on the front cover. The illustration on the cover was interesting, it looks almost clay like, and the man on the front looks clearly surprised or confused. The illustrations inside the book are very picturesque. It is as if each picture coul...moreThe stranger was a very interesting book to me. It had a nice air of mystery to it. The cover seemed so interesting, but also so simple. There was nothing on the darkly colored back cover, and a thick boarder the same color as the back cover around the image on the front cover. The illustration on the cover was interesting, it looks almost clay like, and the man on the front looks clearly surprised or confused. The illustrations inside the book are very picturesque. It is as if each picture could be taken out and placed in a frame, which I thinks adds to the overall beauty of the page. The images are bordered by thick white space. And the text is bordered by a thin black line, separating the text from the pictures nicely. The colors used are very natural tones; browns, dark greens, very autumn-like colors. The pictures are always on the left while the images are always on the right. I think this set structure could help a young reader understand the story and focus on the plot unfolding, because they are not distracted or surprised by a different style on each page. I thought it was weird that the picture book started with a man getting hit by a car. That seems to be an interesting exposition for a children’s book. The story seemed very sporadic to me. There was quite a bit of random events that had no significance; the doctor leaving his thermometer at the house, the stranger not sweating when he works hard. Some pages just seemed to be out of place. I liked the surprise ending. I did not expect the stranger to be the one making the trees change. I liked that Van Allsburg had the story continue by describing that the same thing happens every fall since the stranger left. I would recommend this for primary aged student’s, I think it would keep them entertained while the teacher reads it out loud. I could find no real moral, so I am not convinced it could be used as a teaching tool as far as a moral goes, but it could be used to inspire student’s imagination. (less)

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Sep 16, 2011

Sarah-Rae Bugayong rated it

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After I finished reading this book the saying, never judge a book by its cover came to mind. When I first picked this up, I thought the story would be frightening. The illustration on the cover totally caught me off-guard since I found the story inspiring and mysterious. Inspiring because the Baileys took this stranger in with no hesitation and he brought nothing but good things to them. Mysterious because we never get to fully understand who the stranger is and where he came from and why the he...more

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Sep 14, 2011

Nicole rated it

The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg is a complex and intriguing picture book. The dust jacket’s front illustration does not reveal anything about the story itself. However, in true Van Allsburg style, the gold leaf foil stamp on the front cover of the book gives a small clue to the essence of this mysterious tale. The end pages, which the reader encounters before any of the text, are also the color of orange autumn leaves. Van Allsburg cleverly inserts these autumn motifs and colors throughout th...moreThe Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg is a complex and intriguing picture book. The dust jacket’s front illustration does not reveal anything about the story itself. However, in true Van Allsburg style, the gold leaf foil stamp on the front cover of the book gives a small clue to the essence of this mysterious tale. The end pages, which the reader encounters before any of the text, are also the color of orange autumn leaves. Van Allsburg cleverly inserts these autumn motifs and colors throughout the book leading the reader to speculate on what or who the stranger really is.

The illustrations in The Stranger are full color pastel drawings/ paintings, framed in a thin black border. The story appears to have taken place sometime in the past, and the double line border around the text compliments this tone of the book. The perspective changes from each page to the next as does the combination of landscape drawings and portraits. I enjoyed the subtle hues used by Van Allsburg in the illustrations, reminiscent of the end of summer when the air has a slight chill in it. The childlike and vivid expressions of the Stranger also deserve recognition. When the Stranger remembers who he is after he blows on the green leaf, turning it instantly orange, Van Allsburg is able to capture this moment accurately and honestly—it could be a photo snapshot.

This book is perhaps the most ambiguous picture book I have ever read. Van Allsburg asks the reader to fully participate in this book as he leads them on a mysterious discovery to uncover who the Stranger really is, only to leave them with more questions than answers at the conclusion of the book. Why does the Stranger seem to have this connection to the weather? Does the Stranger embody autumn? Why is he running through the field on the title page? Does the Stranger really represent the beautiful fall leaves and was somehow transformed into a human form?

This book could spark conversation between even the most reticent of readers and students. It is a triumph for Van Allsburg and although not my favorite picture book in his bibliography, definitely a work of art both in storytelling and illustration.
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Sep 13, 2011

Traci rated it

The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg brings new meaning to how the seasons change. Farmer Bailey hits a strange man on his way home. He brings the man back to his home to heal, and the family and the stranger soon make friends. The stranger never says a word, but only watches and follows the family members around the see what they are doing. One day the stranger realizes the trees of the Bailey farm are green, but the rest of the valleys are orange. How strange is that? The stranger takes a ...moreThe Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg brings new meaning to how the seasons change. Farmer Bailey hits a strange man on his way home. He brings the man back to his home to heal, and the family and the stranger soon make friends. The stranger never says a word, but only watches and follows the family members around the see what they are doing. One day the stranger realizes the trees of the Bailey farm are green, but the rest of the valleys are orange. How strange is that? The stranger takes a leaf from a tree and blows on it until it turns red. Soon after, the rest of the trees of the Bailey farm turn red, signifying fall.

Before I began to read this book I studied the picture on the cover carefully. Why did the man on the cover look so frightened? Was this going to be a scary story? Was this man in trouble? I took the dust jacket off and discovered the title of the story stamped, as well as a single leaf below the title. What would the leaf signify in the story? With the black front and back, I still pondered whether this was going to be a scary story or not. As you open the book the orange is striking against the black from the cover. As I thought about the leaf, is this story around the time of Halloween? Does it have to do with the fall? The text is simple black text, white background, and has a border. For me, the border around the pictures allowed me to "look" in on the Bailey family and the stranger. The text reads very smoothly, and provides the reader with the sense of ease, and creates a mystery for the reader to solve. I enjoyed the fact that there is no identity for the stranger because it allowed me to create me own idea of what happened to him or where he may have come from. What would be the fun if the story if we knew that the stranger's name was John and he had a family? As I studied the pictures I began to see the strokes in the trees and the detail to facial expressions and character development. As you begin to learn about the stranger (especially the fact that the cover page is him being served soup for dinner) and how he interacts with animals and loves being outdoors, I began to wonder if he was indeed just a hermit. However, the text plays on the fact that the stranger does indeed have something to do with the outdoors. The ending of the story left me pondering about the true identity of the mysterious man, but I was satisfied knowing that the stranger brought fall to the farm. The stranger would always be with the family.
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Sep 12, 2011

Jennifer rated it

The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg is a story about Farmer Bailey finding a stranger in the road by accidentally hitting him with this car. He decides to take him in and take care of him. The stranger doesn’t have any memory whatsoever of who he is and what’s his name. He stays with the family until one day he realizes that something is different with the weather. He notices that all the trees around the Bailey’s house are green but the ones far away are orange and red. He decides to leave the B...more

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Sep 12, 2011

Meghan Porter rated it

The Stranger was an interesting and beautifully illustrated book, however I have to confess that I didn't really undertand it. I liked the idea of a stranger who was helping the Bailey family on their farm, but when it came time for him to "become" autumn and he helped the leaves change, I did get a little confused. I didn't really understand how this man who didn't know about buttoning up his overalls could turn into the autumn wind and change the leaves of the trees, but I did th...more

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Oct 07, 2009

Britt Kitko added it

Summary: Farmer Bailey hits a man with his truck and takes him home to care for him. They find the man to be very mysterious but allow him to stall until he gets his memory back. It turns out the man never tires, never sweats, and has the ability to stop summer from ending. When he leaves the Bailey's, he leaves a note left in frost and autumn comes.

Audience:
- Reading level- Fluent
- Genre-Science Fiction
- Topic- Mystery, Autumn

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Sep 13, 2011

Tiffany rated it

The Stranger was really strange. I didn't really understand the story. For me, I guess the story left too much up for questions/debate. Why didn't the stranger ever talk? How did he end up turning the leaves different colors? Why did the family allow this stranger to stay with them for so long?

As far as looking at the illustrations and the parts of the book, I noticed that there was a leaf stamped on the front cover of the book underneath the dust jacket. So, before reading the s...more

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Sep 16, 2011

Chrissy Muller rated it

I really enjoyed looking at the illustrations in this book, however I am really confused as to what even happens in the story! It seemed to end quite abruptly and didn't tie up any loose ends. The "stranger" has no idea who he is, but animals love him, and he has the ability to change the color of leaves. This leads me to think he's some sort of seasonal changing symbol-like figure. When he was living with the family, the colors of the leaves in the trees at the family farm didn't ever...more

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Sep 14, 2011

Lindsay rated it

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I have always loved Chris Van Allsburg's illustrations. To be honest, I had always been so captivated by the pictures I never really took the time to read any of his books. Van Allsburg is he reason I pursued children's book illustration when I first started college. He realistic drawings are similar to the style of illustration I enjoy creating. However, after reading this book I have to add this eerie illustrations perfectly suit his strange story and characters. I loved how this book keeps yo...more

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Feb 07, 2011

Jennifer Anderberg rated it

As for this book , I was completely amazed at how engrossed I was in the story, It really makes you think. They never really come out and say who the stranger is, but you assume. The full color pastel drawings, really add alot to the story. They vividly show you the story with his pictures. I have never actually read one of Chris Van Allsburg's books prior to this one, and must say that after reading the stranger I am excited to read his other works and view the artwork that his books contain. H...more

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Oct 17, 2011

Joshua Cakebread rated it

This is a book that I have mixed feelings about. I feel that it was well written and appreciate the effort made in having the main character be representative of more than a simple person. Introduction of students to allegory is an important thing; they should understand that some people, places, or things (nouns in general) are more than they appear, and their presence is meant to portray an idea more than just a character. However, I feel that this story is beyond the level of younger eleme...more

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Oct 14, 2009

Jessica Breighner rated it

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Summary:One fall day, while Farmer Bailey is riding down the road in his truck, he runs over something---or someone. At first, he thinks he hits a deer, but when he gets out to see what he hit, he finds that he has accidentally run over a man. The man tries to flee, but loses his balance and falls down. Farmer Bailey takes him to his house, where he and his wife, Mrs. Bailey, discover the stranger cannot talk.
The Baileys call a doctor to examine him. Although the stranger isn't seriously h...moreSummary:One fall day, while Farmer Bailey is riding down the road in his truck, he runs over something---or someone. At first, he thinks he hits a deer, but when he gets out to see what he hit, he finds that he has accidentally run over a man. The man tries to flee, but loses his balance and falls down. Farmer Bailey takes him to his house, where he and his wife, Mrs. Bailey, discover the stranger cannot talk.
The Baileys call a doctor to examine him. Although the stranger isn't seriously hurt, he can't remember who he is or where he's from. The doctor advises the Baileys to give the stranger shelter until he's fully recuperated. They do, and he fits in well with the family, and even helps about the farm. Mr. Bailey enjoys having the stranger as his guest, but he also notices how peculiar the weather has been. It still feels like summer on his farm, and the summer warmth makes his pumpkins grow bigger than normal. The stranger too notices this. He wonders why the trees on the Bailey farm are still green while all the other trees on the other farms are red and orange. One day, however, the stranger blows on a green leaf. When it turns orange, he realizes it's time for him to leave the Baileys. On his last evening at the house, the stranger gets hugs from all the Baileys before he leaves. They come outside to wave their friend goodbye, but he's disappeared. With the stranger's departure, fall has come to the Bailey's farm and the trees are now all red and orange. Etched in frost of the farmhouse windows is the old phrase, "See you next fall." Now the question is, who is the Stranger and will he actually come back next fall?.
The Stranger, By, Chris Van Allsburg
1. Brief Summary:
One fall day, while Farmer Bailey is riding down the road in his truck, he runs over something---or someone. At first, he thinks he hits a deer, but when he gets out to see what he hit, he finds that he has accidentally run over a man. The man tries to flee, but loses his balance and falls down. Farmer Bailey takes him to his house, where he and his wife, Mrs. Bailey, discover the stranger cannot talk.
The Baileys call a doctor to examine him. Although the stranger isn't seriously hurt, he can't remember who he is or where he's from. The doctor advises the Baileys to give the stranger shelter until he's fully recuperated. They do, and he fits in well with the family, and even helps about the farm. Mr. Bailey enjoys having the stranger as his guest, but he also notices how peculiar the weather has been. It still feels like summer on his farm, and the summer warmth makes his pumpkins grow bigger than normal. The stranger too notices this. He wonders why the trees on the Bailey farm are still green while all the other trees on the other farms are red and orange. One day, however, the stranger blows on a green leaf. When it turns orange, he realizes it's time for him to leave the Baileys. On his last evening at the house, the stranger gets hugs from all the Baileys before he leaves. They come outside to wave their friend goodbye, but he's disappeared. With the stranger's departure, fall has come to the Bailey's farm and the trees are now all red and orange. Etched in frost of the farmhouse windows is the old phrase, "See you next fall." Now the question is, who is the Stranger and will he actually come back next fall?
2. Potential Audience(Topic, Genre, Reading Level):
Reading Level is fluent
Topic caring for people you do not know and trusting them
Genre is fiction
3. Specific Curricular Uses:
Read Aloud for younger audiences; Independent reading for more fluent readers; shared reading for the transitional readers
4. Social Issues the book addresses:
Taking in strangers and gaining trust in them and allowing them to help.
5. Specific Literary Elements the book demonstrates:
Foreshadowing and third person narration take place in this reading.
6. Interactions and Counteractions of text and image; How does the illustration help tell the story?
The text carries the story throughout without much help from the illustrations. The illustrations only highlight the main events that happen in the story.

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Sep 10, 2011

Spencer Gold rated it

This book had that Stephen King type of story. It felt so mysterious and had you guessing the whole time who was this guy and what is his background. I like that the story never really told who this man was. Was Van Allsburg trying to make him some sort of male Mother Nature with his ability to change seasons and the postive effect he had on the animals.

The illustrations reminded me of that famous painting of the farmer with the pitchfork. I wonder if Van Allsburg modele...more

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Feb 06, 2012

Brianne Griffin rated it

In Chris Van Allsburg's "The Stranger" his message is not the usual "don't talk to strangers".The stranger is harmless and kind. The Baileys took care of him and included him in the family. "The Stranger" uses a landscape style to portray the focus of the farm land. The illustrations are framed by a white border which emphasizes the scenes and the many nature aspects included in them. Chris Van Allsburg used an establishing shot in the first illustration to reveal t...more

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Sep 26, 2011

Karina Macias rated it

I was disappointed by the story but the illustrations were beautiful. The story, I thought, made no point and some of the details that were included were unnecessary. I read this book with my younger sister and she was confused, as was I, about who the stranger actually was and about why the family invites a complete stranger into their home. This book might be inappropriate for children when they are learning that talking to random strangers is dangerous, the whole "stranger danger" c...more

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Feb 08, 2012

Anne rated it

Chris Van Allsburg is very good at making books that standout from the rest, this I found to be particularly strange. “The Stranger” hints at the stranger being something other than the man he appears to be. There are many implications that this stranger has something to do with the changing of the seasons from summer to fall. The illustrations in this story are beautiful. They enhancing the story and capturing the season of fall stunningly. The mystery of the true identity of the stranger gets...more

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Sep 21, 2011

Julie rated it

One day Farmer Bailey hits something with his truck and discovers a man in the road. He takes the Stranger home with him to recover. He is very interested in the nature and animals around the farm and soon gets worried about the leaves still being green. He decides to leave one day and with this disappearance the leaves finally turn to their fall colors.
The illustrations follow the story very well and help the reader to understand the mystery of the Stranger better. Each picture is made up...more

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Jul 06, 2011

Barbara rated it

When a mysterious stranger is accidentally hit by a truck, a farmer brings him home and takes care of the man. But who is he? Why is cold weather not coming to the farm? I love to use this picture book when teaching students about inferences. There are plenty of clues about who the mysterious stranger may be, but many readers don't recognize those clues until the story has been finished. Readers need to have some experience with seasonal change and cold weather as I found that many of my student...more

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Sep 23, 2011

Morgan Leech added it

The one thing that I love about Chris Van Allsburg's books is his constant cross between fantasy and reality in all of his books. When farmer Bailey accidentally hits man with his car, he loses his memory of who is he and where he is. Farmer Bailey takes him in, while trying to help him recover. The man that farmer Bailey hits has a strange and peculiar relationship with wild animals and becomes quite an asset to farmer Bailey out in the working fields when he discovers that he never tires. The...more

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Sep 24, 2011

Katelynn Callahan added it

This book was very intriguing, and also very confusing to me. I think that this book, along with the other Van Allsburg books I have read are not necessarily suited for children. This book is about a man that gets hit by a car. The man driving the car is Farmer Bailey. Farmer Bailey has the stranger stay in his house until he gets better. Many creepy things happen while the stranger is staying on Farmer Bailys farm and no one is able to explain them. The stranger seems to be magical and the thi...more

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Sep 13, 2011

Melissa Fordonski rated it

Throughout this story, the reader is always left wondering, who is this stranger? A mysterious mute man comes into the Bailey family’s life when Farmer Bailey hits him with his car. Although he survives the accident, there are many clues in this story make the reader infer that the stranger is not a man but rather he symbolizes the changing of seasons. His breath creates a draft when he blows on his soup, he works hard on the farm without breaking a sweat and he is hypnotized by geese that are ...more

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Sep 20, 2011

Nicole Thompson rated it

This book was very interesting, and also very confusing for me. i feel that this book, along with other Van Allsburg books aren't necessarily suited for children. this book is about a strange man that gets hit by a car. the man driving the car is Farmer Bailey. Farmer Bailey has the stranger stay in his house until he is better. many interesting things happen while the stranger is staying on their farm, things that nobody can quite explain. it seems that there is some sort of magic with the stra...more

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Feb 06, 2012

Rachel Manak added it

The Stranger is done in a landscape orientation. The jacket has a picture with a thin white border and a darker border around the white border. The title is done in simple, all caps font. The end pages are a scarlet color. On the left hand side of the pages, you find the text with a double dark thin line border. On the right hand page, you find the illustration with a plain white border. This is the orientation throughout the entire book. The illustrations are done in color with mostly landscape...more

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Sep 20, 2011

Shannon Obrien rated it

I thought the book 'The Stranger' was an extremely entertaining book. After first I wasn't sure what to expect the cover made it come off like more of a freighting children's book. As the story started it wasn't what I had expected at all, as I kept reading I wanted to figure out more about the man and who he was and what he was doing. I also liked the ending because they didn't exactly tell you who he was or what he was their for, you just had to use your imagination and ask yourself what yo...more

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Feb 10, 2012

Olivia Lavelle rated it

The stranger by Chris Van Allsburg was really a strange book. When I first read this book I did not understand what the story was about. I think this book is quite complex for young children to really grasp onto. This book would have to thoroughly be explained to children. But, what I got from this book was our class believed that this "stranger" was a magical man who happened to be the season fall. There were some obvious clues as to why we thought this. Chris Van Allsburg's pictures...more

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Sep 20, 2011

Anna Rothenhoefer rated it

The Stranger, by Chris Van Allsburg, is a mysterious book about a man, Mr. Bailey, who hits someone with his car. He helps this stranger up, has him checked by a doctor, and allows him to stay in his home while his memory recovers. As Mr. Bailey's young daughter, Katy, watches the stranger, she starts to notice odd things about him. This story is a more mature children's book because of the word choice and vocabulary. I enjoyed the illustrations. I also like how the family gets used to the stran...more

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About Chris Van Allsburg

Chris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18th, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg. His sister Karen was born in 1947.

Chris’s paternal grandfather, Peter, owned and operated a creamery, a place where milk was turned into butter, cream, cottage cheese, and ice cream. It was named East End Creamery and after they bottled the milk (a...moreChris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18th, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg. His sister Karen was born in 1947.

Chris’s paternal grandfather, Peter, owned and operated a creamery, a place where milk was turned into butter, cream, cottage cheese, and ice cream. It was named East End Creamery and after they bottled the milk (and made the other products) they delivered it to homes all around Grand Rapids in yellow and blue trucks.

When Chris was born, his family lived in an old farm house next door to the large brick creamery building. It was a very old house that, like the little house in Virginia Lee Burton’s story, had once looked over farmland. But by 1949, the house was surrounded by buildings and other houses. Chris’s father ran the dairy with Chris’s three uncles after his grandfather Peter retired.

When Chris was three years old, his family moved to a new house at the edge of Grand Rapids that was part of a development; a kind of planned neighborhood, that was still being built.

There remained many open fields and streams and ponds where a boy could catch minnows and frogs, or see a firefly at night. It was about a mile and a half to Breton Downs School, which Chris walked to every day and attended until 6th grade, when the Van Allsburg family moved again.

The next house they lived in was an old brick Tudor Style house in East Grand Rapids. It was a street that looked like the street on the cover of The Polar Express. The houses were all set back the same distance from the street. Between the street and the sidewalk grew enormous Elm trees whose branches reached up and touched the branches of the trees on the other side of the street. Chris moved to this street with his mom, dad, sister, and two Siamese cats. One named Fafner and the other name Eloise.

Chris went to junior and senior high school in East Grand Rapids. He didn’t take art classes during this time. His interests and talents seemed to be more in the area of math and science.

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