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Jumanji
The game under the tree looked like a hundred others Peters and Judy had at home. But they were bored and restless and, looking for something interesting to do, thought they'd give Jumanji a try. Little did they know when they unfolded its ordinary-looking playing board that they were about to be plunged into the most exciting and bizare adventure of their lives.In his sec...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 27th 1981
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I love the choice of the black and white illustrations of this book. Although Van Allsburg is known for this style of illustration in his books, I think he really uses it to his advantage in Jumanji. For example, note the shading from page to page. The second page, where the children leave the house and encounter the board game, the shading is much darker and provides a more ominous feeling that page before Peter and Judy say goodbye to their parents.
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After seeing the movie over a million times I have nevr actually read the book. I must say I almost like this version better. The pictures reall make the scenes of the book come alive all though there is no color. With all the colors done in a gray tone it really gives the book an eary feeling too it, and giving the readers some suspense. Van Allsburg does a really good job at munipulating the angles of pictures even if they are not correct, such as when we are looking at the two boys by the tre...more
Jumanji is orientated in a landscape fashion, which seems unusual due to the fact that it is mostly a portrait book. The lack of a "landscape" subject causes on to assume it would be done in a portrait landscape. The illustrations are very realistic and are done in what appears to be pencil. The illustrations are in black and white with a mixture of thin lines, thick lines, circular lines, and diagonal lines. There are a lot of straight edges. The text is located on the left hand side ...more
After first observing the book, I observed that the story was set up in a landscape format. I believe this is because the book contains many detailed images and scenery. The illustrations are all black and white, which give the book a more serious mood. The illustrations also contain a lot of shading, which adds to the creepy and mysterious tone of the story. The font is also enclosed within a boarder on its own page, set apart from the illustrations. I believe this enables the reader to focus o...more
To start off, this book's color scheme is black and white. I think that this fits the book because of the time era it seems to perceive when it is being read, for example - in the beginning, the Mother and Father figure (face never shown) are going out and leaving the children behind. There are borders in this story, to have the effect of looking into the adventure of these two kids playing an extraordinary board-game. The orientation of the book is landscape, to show the elaborate scenes that a...more
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg is a story about two young children playing a board game when they are bored and home alone. This board game has strict and specific directions, telling the players of the game that the game will not be over until one player reaches the golden city. The two children, Judy and Peter, begin to play and are surprised by this outrageous and unique game. Overall, this was a very exciting and interesting story. The idea and concept for the story is unique; there is a ...more
The front cover of Jumanji is very appealing and interesting. There were monkeys ravaging a kitchen. The illustrations throughout the book were in black and white but had great detail and were given an entire page to capture the action. By allowing the illustration to cover a whole page and having the text on the other have of the page allow for great detail. The story is about two siblings who are left alone for afternoon and are looking for fun. They find an interesting board game in the park ...more
Jumanji is a picture book intended for primary readers. It has won The Caldecott Medal. In this book two young children stumble upon a board game, but it's no ordinary board game. The events in the board game come to life. Events in the book range from a stampede to a hungry lion. The children must try and stay alive on their adventure to finish the game.
I rated this book four stars because it was an very exciting adventure book. One thing that I did not like about the book was that t...more
I rated this book four stars because it was an very exciting adventure book. One thing that I did not like about the book was that t...more
In my childhood, I have watched the movie version of Jumaji and very much enjoyed it. Having finally read the book I must say I enjoyed this version much more. The story follows two siblings Judy and Peter and their adventures while playing the game “Jumanji” where the children are pit against increasingly difficult situations that takes the form of real life animals and the disasters which the game places them both in. I instantly fell in love with the story concept of a game coming alive and l...more
This story was about two children, Judy and Peter who find a game in the park on a chilly fall day. They arrive home and begin to play the game, only to find out that something is off about the game. With every roll of the dice, the children encounter new problems. A lion shows up on the couch, monkeys in the kitchen, and a snake on the mantel. They have a monsoon and volcano in the house, as well as a lost tour guide. Judy finally reaches Jumanji and ends the game, everything that came in the ...more
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This book is about a board game that comes to life when you start it. While you play the game, all of the things come to life. For example one of the kids rolls the dice and lands on a space that says lions attack move back 2 spaces. Unexpectedly, the kids turn around and see a lion sitting on their piano. The only way for the animal to disappear is if the kids finish the game. After many more exciting things happen the kids finally finished the game and all of the animals went back into the gam...more
This book is about a brother and sister, Peter and Judy, who discover a board game in a nearby park. They decide to take it home and play it. They read the directions and play the game and on the first move, a large lion was sitting on their piano. The next time they went they landed on "monkey steal food" and when Judy looked in the kitchen, there were monkeys sitting there. Then on their next roll, the "monsoon season begins" was the space that they landed on. Next thing th...more
This is one of the first books that came to mind when i read we were looking closely at Chris Van Allsburg was Jumanji! When i was little this book used to give me quite the scare for some reason but as time went on i began to appreciate it more and more. The whole concept of a board game coming to life is amazing to me. The way this book was written really took me to a whole new place where my imagination ran wild. With the illustrations looking fabulous just as i pictured them in my head, the ...more
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2.Jumanji is a captivating, interesting story about two kids and their magical board game. The two kids find this game while they are in a park and decide to play the game. After starting the game, it takes them through the wilds of the jungle on an adventure to the city of Jumanji.
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b. The illustrations in this book are great but they do lack color. I don't think that this book would keep a younger reader entertained because a...more
2.Jumanji is a captivating, interesting story about two kids and their magical board game. The two kids find this game while they are in a park and decide to play the game. After starting the game, it takes them through the wilds of the jungle on an adventure to the city of Jumanji.
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b. The illustrations in this book are great but they do lack color. I don't think that this book would keep a younger reader entertained because a...more
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Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Jumanji is an illustrated short story and fantasy tale, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji is a combination of the words jungle and magic.
When two children, Peter and Judy, are left at home for an evening they find a board game in the park called Jumanji. A note stuck to the box warns to read instructions carefully. Out of curiosity and boredom they decide to take it home with them. When they open th...more
Jumanji is an illustrated short story and fantasy tale, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji is a combination of the words jungle and magic.
When two children, Peter and Judy, are left at home for an evening they find a board game in the park called Jumanji. A note stuck to the box warns to read instructions carefully. Out of curiosity and boredom they decide to take it home with them. When they open th...more
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg is the story about Judy and Peter and their discovery of a mysterious board game called Jumanji. They discover the game during a venture through the park and take it home to play. One of the main rules of the game is that once it is started it must be finished. Peter and Judy begin the game thinking it will be simple and finished quickly, but as they quickly find out this is no ordinary board game. Lions, monkeys, and a strange tour guide pop out during game pla...more
Jumanji is an interesting story about a magical board game. Judy and Peter find a game on their walk through a park and decide to take it home to play. In order to finish the game the kids have to face the perils of the jungle and get to the Golden City of Jumanji and call it's name. While playing they meet lions, monkeys, a lost guide, and a stampede of rhinos. The story is well written, although I found it to be very serialized. The kids roll the dice and something happens then they do ...more
I really liked this book. I remember hearing about it as a child and always seeing it on bookshelves, but never picked it up to read myself. I would definitely recommend this book, but for upper elementary grades. Not because the content is too hard, but because it is more of a longer picture book and I do not think that it would hold the attention of younger elementary grades except if the teacher or instructor was reading it.
I thought how the board game actually came to life was very...more
I thought how the board game actually came to life was very...more
Malcolm Nelson
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Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji is a classic tale of mystery and imagination, much like most of his other books. The thing that struck me right off the bat about this particular book was that Van Allsburg chose to depict each picture in only black and white with heavy shading. what it lacked in color it made up for in detail and perfection. The lighting in each drawing was chosen with the utmost care and assited in bring the reader into the game itself.The shadows depicted in the image gave each dr...more
Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji is a classic tale of mystery and imagination, much like most of his other books. The thing that struck me right off the bat about this particular book was that Van Allsburg chose to depict each picture in only black and white with heavy shading. what it lacked in color it made up for in detail and perfection. The lighting in each drawing was chosen with the utmost care and assited in bring the reader into the game itself.The shadows depicted in the image gave each dr...more
This story by Chris Van Allsburg shares the experience of a brother and his sister's journey through terrifying jungle game that becomes all-to-real. Their boredom drives them to play the game and in the end they bite off more than they can chew. The ending of the story sets up the story line for Van Allsburg's Zathura that was published a little over 20 years after Jumanji. The illustrations in Jumanji are remarkably detailed and exquisite, even without color. Even though Van Allsburg chooses...more
As far as its illustrations go, Jumanji doesn't lag behind any book that had ever previously won the Caldecott Medal, in my view. Chris Van Allsburg's eerie use of shadowing is fantastic, and certainly deserving of the highest honors available to picture book illustrators. My first experience with this book was when my teacher read it to our class in first grade, and the scariness of the drawings has stayed with me ever since.
Readers who expect Jumanji to rival the movie adaptation...more
Readers who expect Jumanji to rival the movie adaptation...more
My initial reaction to this read was excited because although I haven't watch the full movie, I remembered clips and knew it was going to be interesting. Because I knew the book was going to be exciting, and the cover didn't really display lots of graphics and creativity, I knew it had to be old. That's what I like though- a subtle cover that is backed up by the words. As I was reading halfway throughout the book, I realized that I hadn't even been paying attention to the pictures because the bo...more
Ronyell
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“Jumanji” is a Caldecott Award- winning book by Chris Van Allsburg and is the most popular children’s book out of all of his books. In this story, two children, Peter and Judy, discover a strange looking board game and they soon realize that this board game is more dangerous then they thought. “Jumanji” is clearly one of the most inventive and intense children’s book that will surely make children read it for a long time.
Chris Van Allsburg is excellent at illustrating and writing ...more
Chris Van Allsburg is excellent at illustrating and writing ...more
Mari Jo
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Our group chose Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg as our "read aloud" project in school; of course, this author also wrote the wildly popular Polar Express. Students are also aware that both of these books were made into movies. The author does such a wonderful job of drawing the reader in to the story through the powerful choice of words, plot, and illustrations that are black and white yet make the reader imagaine more detail; maybe this is the author's intention: to make the reader us...more
Jennifer
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A classic adventure story from Chris Van Allsburg, Jumanji shows us one afternoon in the lives of Peter and Judy, two children who go from being completely bored to having a little too much excitement all thanks to Jumanji, the board game they find. Van Allsburg does some really interesting things with perspective here; we almost never see people's faces. When the lion first appears his head is cut off at the top of the illustration. The effect is that the reader feels like this is a real hou...more
I think my favorite Chris Van Allsburrg story is most definitely this one. "Jumanji" takes us into another world while "Jumanji", the game, takes the other world to Judy and Peter. Once Judy and Peter started playing the game I couldn't stop reading, wondering in suspense as to what would happen next， what disaster would strike and would the two ever finish the game in time to save their lives? The pictures are very beautiful and in black in white. I personal liked how the sn...more
Jumanji, by Chris Van Allsburg is a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and winner of the 1982 Caldecott Medal. According to Amazon.com: "...when Judy and Peter find a board game in the park, they take it home, hoping to alleviate their boredom. One live lion, an erupting volcano, and a dozen destructive monkeys later, the children are no longer bored. Their jungle adventure game has come to life! Van Allsburg is a master at walking the line between fantasy and reality. His unusually sculp...more
I think I may be reviewing this with a bias, because I saw the movie first. And if you're expecting this to be like the film, you'll be disappointed. Not because it's a bad book (far from it), but because it's actually a very quiet book. It seems like it would be a difficult feat to make a book about a board game that creates life-threatening situations (attacking lion, stampeding elephants) to children quiet, but somehow Chris Van Allsburg has achieved this. Some of this may be due to the s...more
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I'm finding more and more that what draws me to all of these children's books are the illustrations. They are all so good! The pictures in this book seemed so life-like. Though they lacked color, they certainly didn't lack power; they brought the story to life. I especially like the pictures of the animals, they seem to run off the pages and really put the reader right there in the book with the characters.
I can remember reading this book as a little kid and thinking it was the cooles...more
I can remember reading this book as a little kid and thinking it was the cooles...more
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