Awesome Illustrator!

Cover: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
by Chris Van Allsburg

Insert: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
by Chris Van Allsburg

Just read this book to my girls and love-love-LOVED the illustrations. So detailed and crisp...looks like pencil, so it's all black and white. A very talented artist, indeed. I've not read anything else by Chris Van Allsburg, although most are familiar with or have at least heard of his Caldecott winners, Jumanji and The Polar Express.

This story, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, is good but what really held my interest were his spectacular illustrations. Chris Van Allsburg won a Caldecott Honor for this book.