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|title=The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

|sort=Chronicles of Harris Burdick

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781849394086

|pages=236

|publisher=Andersen

|date=April 2012

|summary=A delightful, and delightful-looking collection of intriguing fantasies.

}}

Meet Harris Burdick - not that many people ever did. He was a fictional entity, produced by [[:Category:Chris Van Allsburg|Chris Van Allsburg]], and in the 1980s [[The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg|his output]] was a dozen odd but beautiful pictures with, for each, a single caption and the name of the story they were designed to illustrate. Burdick, allegedly, disappeared - but his pictures stuck around to inspire a Stephen King short story. Now we get a lavish, yummy hardback of all the pictures, and now, through the agency of a great editor, they all have their appropriate short story.

[[The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg]] has the original pictures and captions - perhaps the further reading we'd recommend is what those inspire in (or for) your own children? For more brilliantly absorbing fantasy in the meantime we loved [[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente]], which is even more of a wallow than the title suggests.

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