{"id":2319,"date":"2011-03-15T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:49","slug":"chris-van-allsburg-to-visit-book-beat-wednesday-april-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2011\/03\/15\/chris-van-allsburg-to-visit-book-beat-wednesday-april-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Van Allsburg to Visit Book Beat, Wednesday April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/queenfalls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2321\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"queenfalls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/queenfalls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We are unable to reach everyone who would appreciate these events.\u00a0\u00a0 If you know anyone who would be interested, please forward this information on to them.\u00a0 Thank you for your continued support<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two-time <strong>Caldecott Award<\/strong> winning author\/illustrator and Michigan native <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvanallsburg.com\/flash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chris Van Allsburg<\/strong><\/a> will be visiting the <strong>Book Beat<\/strong> on <strong>Wednesday, April 6 from 3-6 p.m<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is a rare chance to meet one of the truly great children&#8217;s book illustrators and a master storyteller.\u00a0 Van Allsburg won the Caldecott Medal for the <strong><em>Polar <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Express <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Jumanji <\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>and a Caldecott Honor Award for his first book <strong><em>The Garden of Abdul Gasazi <\/em><\/strong>and received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement in children&#8217;s literature.\u00a0 He grew up in Grand Rapids, MI and currently lives in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Van Allsburg\u2019s latest creation, <em><strong>Queen of the Falls,<\/strong><\/em> tells the thrilling true story of Ms. Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to go over the Niagara Falls. Taylor was a 62-year-old retired charm school instructor living in Bay City. MI when she undertook the scheme for profit and fame, though both managed to elude her.\u00a0 This is Van Allsburg&#8217;s first work of non-fiction, but the strange tal<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/vanallsburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2326\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"vanallsburg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/vanallsburg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>e fits his magical yet realistic style and comes marvelously to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There  is something decidedly fantastic and not quite real about  Niagara Falls,  about Annie\u2019s adventure, and about the stories that can  unfold when  imagination, determination, and foolhardiness combine to  set humans off  in pursuit of their goals.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schoollibraryjournal.com\/afuse8production\/2011\/01\/15\/review-of-the-day-queen-of-the-falls-by-chris-van-allsburg\/\">Review from FUSE #8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is truly a special opportunity to meet Van Allsburg in a small, personal setting, and a great chance to get signed copies of his wonderful books.\u00a0 His books will be available for sale, including<strong><em> Queen of the Falls<\/em><\/strong>, a great new addition to his work.\u00a0 <strong>3-6 p.m, Wednesday, April 6 on 2011 at the Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Rd, Oak Park, MI 48237.<\/strong> For more information call <strong>248-968-1190<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=kMCRavWvsDo\">Chris Van Allsburg on creating \\&#8221;Queen of the Falls\\&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are unable to reach everyone who would appreciate these events.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you know anyone who would be interested, please forward this information on to them.&nbsp; Thank you for your continued support Two-time Caldecott Award winning author\/illustrator and Michigan native Chris Van Allsburg will be visiting the Book Beat on Wednesday, April 6 from 3-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-childrens-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}