Interview with Polar Express Author, Chris Van Allsburg

Terrific interview with children’s author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg from Mlive.com. For those of you unfamiliar with children’s lit, Van Allsburg is the author of several beautfully and lavishly illustrated, quirky books, including the Polar Express, which has been turned into an upcoming holiday movie.

He’s fascinated by weird things happening in ordinary places. He always reads those newspaper stories about cars crashing into peoples’ living rooms. If the front end of an Oldsmobile looks that good in somebody’s living room, he muses, think how cool a herd of rhinos would be.