Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator

Chris Van Allsburg

American children's writer and illustrator (born 1949)

Chris Van Allsburg is an American writer and illustrator 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, and were later adapted as successful motion pictures.…