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I'm working to stem stories, Mr Ewing.
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We're going reading a very interesting book, one of my
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favorite books that was given to me by a very
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close friend.
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It's called Harris Burning by Chris Van Allsburg.
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It's a very different type of read aloud that we're
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gonna be looking at.
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It has more to do with the images and what
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you perceive is going on.
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So let's jump in the mysteries of Harris Berg and
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I always like to read the inside cover books, our
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the back blur, to find out what we might be
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learning about.
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When Chris Penn Osberg was invited to the home of
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Peter Winners, he discovered 14 drawings that were, like Pieces
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of the picture, puzzled clues to larger pictures.
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But the puzzles, the mysteries presented by these drawings are
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not what we're used to.
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They are not solved for us, as in the final
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pages of of a book or a film's last real.
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The solutions to these mysteries lying a place at once,
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closer at hand, yet far more remote.
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They lie in our imagination.
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For those who have thought of themselves as unimaginative, this
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book will prove the opposite.
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Even the most reluctant.
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Imagine imagination, when confronted by these drawings, will not be
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able to resist solving the mysteries of Harris burning.
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And I always like to talk about being an investigator
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or a private eye, where you trying to solve the
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mystery of what's going on and these pictures have a
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lot going on, and I love to figure out where
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your imagination or see where your imagination lead you.
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In this story of the mysteries of Harris Burning by
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Chris Fans Hulseberg the introduction I first saw the drawings
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in this book a year ago in the home of
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a man named Peter Wenders.
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Though Mr Wenders is retired now, he once worked for
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a Children's book publisher, choosing the stories and pictures that
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would be turned into books.
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30 years ago, a man called at Peter Winter's office
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introducing himself is Harris spurting.
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Mr. Burdick explained that he had written 14 stories and
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had drawn many pictures for each one.
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He brought with him just one drawing from each story
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to see if Wenders like this work.
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Here's Peter Wenders was fascinated by the drawings.
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He told Burdick that he would like to read the
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stories that went with them as soon as possible.
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The artists agreed to being to bring the stories.
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The next morning, he left the 14 drawings with Wenders,
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but he did not return the next day or the
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day after that.
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Harrisburg was never heard from again.
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Over the years, Wenders tried to find out who Burdick
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was and what happened to him, but he discovered nothing.
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To this day, Harris verdict remains a complete mystery.
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His disappearance is not the only mystery left behind.
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What were the stories?
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What were the stories that went with these drugs here?
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There are some clues.
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Verdict had written a title and caption for each picture.
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When I told Peter wonders how difficult was to look
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at the drawings and their captions without imagining a story
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a story, he smiled and left the room.
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He returned with a dust covered cardboard box.
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Inside were dozens of stories, all inspired by the Burdick
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drawings. They had been written years ago by wonders, Children
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and their friends.
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I spent the rest of might my visit reading these
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stories. They were remarkable, some bizarre, some funny, some downright
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scary in the hope that other Children will be inspired
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by them.
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The bird drawings have reproduced here for the first time.
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Chris Van Allsburg, Providence, Rhode Island.
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I hope that these stories and captions inspire you, and
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we'll talk about what we might be able to do
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with that at the end of this story.
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You remember, the read aloud is very different this time.
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There isn't as much to read as there is to
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see. So we're gonna be using our brain to actually
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read the story, Aren't you, Smith boy wonder the tiny
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voice inside.
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Is he the one under the rug?
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Two weeks passed and it happened again.
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A strange day in July.
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He threw with all his might.
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But the third stone came skipping back, missing in Venice.
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Even with her mighty engines in reverse, the ocean liner
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was pulled further and further into the canal.
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Another place, another time.
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If there was an answer, he'd find it there uninvited
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guests. His heart was pounding.
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He was sure he had seen the door knob turn
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the harp.
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It's so it's true.
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He thought it's really true.
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Mr. London's Library, and warned her about the book.
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No, it was too late.
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This seventh chair, the 5th 1 ended up in France,
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the third floor bedroom.
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It all began when someone left the window open, just
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dessert. She lowered the knife and it grew even brighter.
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Captain Torrey.
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He swung his lantern three times, and slowly the schooner
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appeared Oscar and all finds a She knew it was
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time to send them back.
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The caterpillars softly wiggled in her hand, spelling out goodbye
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the house on Maple Street.
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It was a perfect list off, and that brings us
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to the end of Harris burning.
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Where is your imagination?
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Go. I would love for you, just like his Children
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did try to story using the images that we've seen
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connecting the images.
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Now you don't have to put them in the same
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word that we just looked at him.
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You can shuffle arm around.
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What story are you going to write from?
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Harris is images.
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I can't wait to hear what you're able to create,
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using your Imagine