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On this day, June 18, in 1949, Chris Van Allsburg was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. Author and illustrator of 22 books thus far (and his artwork has been featured on a handful of other author’s works, as well), he is perhaps best known for the children’s books Jumanji and The Polar Express, both of which won Caldecott Medals (the highest US award for illustration in children’s literature), and both of which
were adapted into major motion pictures. He was actually schooled as a sculptor; it was his wife who suggested that his sketches for his sculptures would be good book illustrations – the rest is history. Today he turns 69.

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