The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but itโs really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.
Chris Van AllsburgI write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
Chris Van AllsburgThe Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.
Chris Van Allsburg