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Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Athletic Boy Grand Growing Growing Up Michigan Supposed Up Were 1950S

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I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Always Art Art Form Artistic Book Does Form Idea Material Own Represent Should Single Thought Visual Which Write You Your

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I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Accept Being Dog Ends Kids Know Really Substitute Up Want Well Would You

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Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Book Child Imagine Peter Position Rabbit Reads Themselves Who

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It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Art Books Children Does Kids Me Most Only Seems Want Writing

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I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Difficult Forget Things Think Unresolved I Think

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I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.'

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Anymore Back Be Original Because Between Cheese Coming Course House Idea Love Must Oh Original Pass Passed Say Seeing Somebody Stoop Through Tiny Where Window Would I Love

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In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Behind Menace Mundane Object Personality Same Setting Some Somehow Suggest Try Way

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I like the gizmos that transport people.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Like People Transport

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I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: Best Children Generally Know Parents Possible Suppose Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 18th, 1949

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