About this title: Two bored and restless kids find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious jungle-adventure board game. Illustrated with detailed b&w pencil drawings. Winner of the 1982 Caldecott Medal.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Trade
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780590906104ISBN:0590906100
Description: Acceptable. WRITING ON FRONT AND BACK COVER. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Van Allsburg, Chris. Good. Library binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. With dust jacket. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
"This version of Jumanji is a Caldecott winner. With pencil drawings and shading, the light angles are very realistic. A boy and his sister find a game in the park and take it home to play it only to find that they are trapped in the game and must complete it to get out of it. They realize that it is "alive." Out of the game comes monkeys and lions and storms, and floods. In this version when the parents return home, they wake the children who thought they were dreaming until they look out of the window and see two boys running from the park with the same box under their arm!"
"I love the choice of the black and white illustrations of this book. Although Van Allsburg is known for this style of illustration in his books, I think he really uses it to his advantage in Jumanji. For example, note the shading from page to page. The second page, where the children leave the house and encounter the board game, the shading is much darker and provides a more ominous feeling that page before Peter and Judy say goodbye to their parents.
When the lion appears on the piano, not only does his body cast a shadow on the page but the lamp, an everyday object in the living room, casts a large dark shadow as well. This works to take the mundane setting that the children were in before and fuse it with the new conflicts from the game. We see this contrast again with the monkeys in the kitchen, next to a bowl of fruit and spilled sugar on the table. We see this again with the python intricately winding himself around the ordinary objects on the mantle, like the clock and vases.
Again with the shadowing, we see the page lighten up after the game has been won and Judy and Peter stand before their parents and their guests. Yet the shading darkens again with the next page as reader foreshadow the fate of Mrs. Budwing's sons when they pick up the game from the park.
This surrealistic art works very well with the message of this book. The realistic drawings, accompanied by the unrealistic images, really hit the mark for this story."
"I love this insanely imaginative story. And Chris Van Allsburg is also a fabulous artist, conveying exactly the boredom, then the excitement and fear of the children."
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