More Van Allsburg!

We continued on with our Chris Van Allsburg author study today, as we read Jumanji. The students loved it, with a few saying that it was the best book we had read all year - I love it when the students get excited about a book! We discussed the story afterward, with some students pointing out differences between the book and the movie that was made based on the book (the movie, while quite good, is not nearly as good as the book, IMHO). After working to identify the characters, setting, problem, and solution in the story, the students wrote a response to the question "What do you think happened to Danny and Walter after the end of Jumanji?", and came up with some very interesting ideas. For those of you who know your Van Allsburg, you know that there's already an answer to this question ;)