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Chris Van Allsburg majored in sculpture at the University of Michigan, where he learned bronze casting, wood carving, resin molding, and other techniques. He earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and in 1975 set up a sculpture studio in Providence. He also married Lisa Morrison, who became an elementary school art teacher in the Providence school system.

Chris first exhibited his sculpture in New York City in 1977 at the Alan Stone Gallery. He exhibited elsewhere in New England, and though sculpture was his primary interest, he began drawing pictures as well.

Lisa, who used picture books in teaching her third grade students, encouraged him to consider making illustrations for a storybook, and a friend, David Macaulay, put him in touch with Walter Lorraine at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. Mr. Lorraine responded positively to Chris’s pictures, but rather than enlist him to illustrate someone else’s text, he encouraged Chris to think about stories of his own.

Though still involved in making sculptures, Chris set aside some time and created the stor

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Chris Van Allsburg Biography

Chris Van Allsburg – American illustrator and author, b. 1949.

American illustrator and author, b. 1949. The publication and subsequent success of Chris Van Allsburgs The Polar Express (1985) clearly established the illustrator-author as one of the premier creators of picture books in twentieth-century children’s literature. The Polar Express, immediately taken to heart by children and adults alike, was a phenomenon in children’s publishing. It won the Caldecott Medal for illustration, appeared on the New York Times best seller list, sold more than a million copies in its first five years of publication, and achieved the status of a contemporary classic.

The story chronicles the adventures of a boy who boards the Polar Express, travels to the North Pole, meets Santa Claus, and is given a silver bell. Its sound can be heard only by those who believe in the impossible—that is, in Santa Claus. Rich pastel illustrations, in blues and purples, are accompanied by a narrative that achieves an exceptional sense of story. The stor

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Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote, and were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.

Life and career

Van Allsburg was born on June 18, 1949, to a Dutch family in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the second child of Doris Christianen and Richard Van Allsburg. He has an older sister named Karen, born in 1947. Van Allsburg and his family lived in an old farmhouse, but when he was three years old, they moved to a Grand Rapids home near an elementary schoo