TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Allsburg,Chris
ED  - Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress)
ED  - Houghton Mifflin Company,
TI  - The stranger
SN  - 0395423317
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Autumn
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Weather
KW  - Seasons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Picture books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fantasy fiction
N1  - Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012; 640; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; LG; 3.7; 0.5; 69065; Reading Counts RC; 3-5; 3.5; 2; Quiz: 15740
N2  - The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season
ER  -