Christmas Reading

I knew I liked author/illustrator Chris Van Allsburg, even if his wonderfully dreamy evocations (Jumanji, Zathura) frequently become story-stretched big-screen patience testers.

In the Polar Express, Van Allsburg depicts the North Pole not with rocaille-rich, german rococo architecture (and the typical Bavarian-esqe derivations); but more delectably, as a greying, industrial, factory town.



The North Pole as Detroit. Right on!