Giving life to the conception is the other half. In his 1986 Caldecott Medal acceptance speech, Van Allsburg observed that, "Conceiving of something is only part of the creative process. His Caldecott Award-winning titles include The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979), Jumanji (1981), and The Polar Express (1985). His skills as an illustrator have earned widespread acclaim from critics who praise his technical virtuosity as well as his highly original artistic vision.
While playful and lighthearted in many respects, his picture books often hint at a dark underlying mood of melancholy and foreboding. Van Allsburg's storybooks have been described as haunting, mysterious, and dreamlike, always celebrating the magnificent powers of the human imagination. His characters generally begin in the everyday world, but soon find that ordinary reality transforms into a realm of surreal and fantastic experiences. Combining moody, dramatic drawings with unadorned prose, Van Allsburg creates stories in which the line between reality and the imagination is constantly blurred. Van Allsburg is one of the most admired children's book author-illustrators of the past twenty-five years. For further information on his life and works, see CLR, Volumes 5 and 13. The following entry presents an overview of Van Allsburg's career through 2004. American illustrator and author of picture books.
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