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This is a collection of more or less creepy and fantastical short stories by a dozen+ authors, based on single illustrations by Chris van Allsburg (who also authored one of the stories).
I like the idea, I like the illustrations. None of the stories were bad. Most of them weren't great, either, and I've already forgotten several a day later. Perfectly palatable as an anthology goes.
My favorites:
Cory Doctorow's "Another Place, Another Time" is a convenient introduction to quantum mechanics and the ...more
I like the idea, I like the illustrations. None of the stories were bad. Most of them weren't great, either, and I've already forgotten several a day later. Perfectly palatable as an anthology goes.
My favorites:
Cory Doctorow's "Another Place, Another Time" is a convenient introduction to quantum mechanics and the ...more
When I was a young child, I wrote a letter to the publisher of The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, offering my theories on what might have happened to the author. I was such a cute, precocious little nerd. Now as an adult I can obviously tell who really illustrated that book, but it's still much beloved by me. I was super excited about this collection, but I felt like it was just OK. There weren't a lot of standout stories for me. I found it really interesting how many times sailors and sea voyages
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One of my favorite children's books of all time is The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. I was so excited to find a story by Stephen King based on one of the illustrations in Nightmares and Dreamscapes, so I was 14x excited to find that a whole book of short stories based on the illustrations was coming out!
These are stories that would appeal to a wide range of children and teens, and probably many adults as well, just like the original book. The stories are filled with magic a ...more
These are stories that would appeal to a wide range of children and teens, and probably many adults as well, just like the original book. The stories are filled with magic a ...more
Dec 13, 2016
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
rated it
really liked it
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Overall, I loved this book of short stories written to accompany the captioned illustrations from Van Allsburg's pictue book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Some of the stories were so-so, but most of them were really good. Stephen King's "The House on Maple Street" felt like an episode of "The Twilight Zone." "Just Desert" by M.T. Anderson gave me the creeps, and could also qualify as a "Twilight Zone" story. Cory Doctorow's "Another Place, Another Time" intrigued me with the main character's
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Worth the price for M. T. Anderson's story ALONE.
Some of the stories are sweet, some are clever, some are creepy. I don't think there's a dud in the bunch! I've always been a huge fan of the original picture book this is based on, but never felt the need to really sit down and write my own version. Lovely that I can kick back and read the ingenious stories now provided by such wonderful authors as Anderson, Stephen King, Lois Lowry, and Linda Sue Park! ...more
Some of the stories are sweet, some are clever, some are creepy. I don't think there's a dud in the bunch! I've always been a huge fan of the original picture book this is based on, but never felt the need to really sit down and write my own version. Lovely that I can kick back and read the ingenious stories now provided by such wonderful authors as Anderson, Stephen King, Lois Lowry, and Linda Sue Park! ...more
Apr 15, 2011
Debbie Barr
marked it as to-read
May 12, 2024
Natalie Pietro
marked it as to-read
