The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van AllsburgI pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.
Chris Van AllsburgThe Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.
Chris Van AllsburgThe 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 Allsburg