Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Title: Jumanji
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this fantasy children's picture book written and illustrated by American author Chris Van Allsburg. First edition, eighteenth impression. Illustrated with fourteen full-page images and a vignette to the title page. Collated complete. Winner of the Caldecott Medal, with the original gilt sticker to the front panel of the dust wrapper. A fantasy children's picture book about an enchanted board game that incorporates wild animals and other jungle elements as the game is played in real life. The book was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name and spawned a franchise that includes three sequels and an animated series. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, 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. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Chris Van Allsburg. Fine/Near Fine.

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