![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris,” Van Allsburg said. Most, he recalled, were longer on enthusiasm than on capital. Between his accolades and a generation of filmmakers who were regaling their own children with “Jumanji,” “The Polar Express,” “Two Bad Ants” and other Van Allsburg works, the bear-shaped, bearded author entertained a stream of offers. “Jumanji,” published in 1981 by Houghton Mifflin, also earned Van Allsburg a National Book Award for book illustration. Two of his 14 titles have won Caldecott Awards, the highest prize for illustrated children’s books. ![]() Van Allsburg now uses such jargon so convincingly that it’s hard to imagine that in the 3 1/2-year course of “repurposing” his book “Jumanji” into TriStar’s big 1995 holiday release, opening Friday, the artist and author never spent a single day on the West Coast. ![]() Among the phrases Chris Van Allsburg picked up in his total-immersion introduction to Hollywood was the expression “laying pipe.” For most people the term might suggest sewer construction, but Van Allsburg soon learned that laying pipe is actually a crucial element of story development-meaning that the weirdness a character displays in Act 1 will explain the plot twists in Act 3. ![]()
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