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A review by tatidengo
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg
4.0
There is something peculiar happening in every illustration in this book, a strange bump under the rug, a missing bird in the pattern of a wallpaper, or a nun rising into the air.
The beauty of writing stories based on pictures (instead of drawing pictures based on stories), is that very often, parts of the story will be kept ambiguous, or "left hanging." Not everything has to make absolute sense, especially since it isn't always possible to draw logical explanations from the pictures themselves.
Essentially: This book shows you ambiguous pictures, followed by equally ambiguous stories based on the pictures. Both forms don't deliver the full story to you, they leave you hanging, which can be entertaining, and sometimes terrifying, but always oddly fulfilling in its ambiguity.
The beauty of writing stories based on pictures (instead of drawing pictures based on stories), is that very often, parts of the story will be kept ambiguous, or "left hanging." Not everything has to make absolute sense, especially since it isn't always possible to draw logical explanations from the pictures themselves.
Essentially: This book shows you ambiguous pictures, followed by equally ambiguous stories based on the pictures. Both forms don't deliver the full story to you, they leave you hanging, which can be entertaining, and sometimes terrifying, but always oddly fulfilling in its ambiguity.