Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick


What a wild book. I can't say story since the story is up to you. It is your opportunity to build a story based on an image, a title, and one short caption. My mind was racing with ideas and this is the perfect book to use for storytelling.


The background for this book is an aspiring writer and illustrator named Harris Burdick entered a publishing office armed with simply one picture from each of his stories, the story title, and one sentence about its tale. The publisher was so interested he asked Harris to return the next day with all the accompanying pictures and text. Harris left his supplies and promised to return the next day, but never did. The artwork and titles remained unpublished until Chris Van Allsburg.

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