When families settle in for their annual viewing of The Polar Express this holiday season, few might realize they’re watching a film that shares a fascinating connection with the action-packed world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a miniature schnauzer. So not like the one that you have in all of your books. Well, that’s a bull terrier, and that’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of the breakout success of Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle, children’s book author Chris Van Allsburg and his producing partners William Teitler, Ted Field and Mike Weber have ...

Celebrated children's book author Chris Van Allsburg will return to his native Michigan for two public appearances this month. The writer and illustrator of award winning picture books "Jumanji" and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - An adaptation of Grand Rapids native Chris Van Allsburg's written work "Jumanji" will bring the jungle to Michigan theaters this December. On Dec. 19, a simultaneous statewide ...

Had it not been for a fateful day when he was a high school senior in East Grand Rapids — when Chris Van Allsburg snowed a University of Michigan admissions counselor into letting him into the ...

Jon Favreau's 2005 sci-fi film Zathura: A Space Adventure, starring Josh Hutcherson and Kristen Stewart, has found a new free ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fox/Disney has acquired screen rights to The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, the bestselling children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg. Darren Lemke (Goosebumps, Shazam) will adapt. Mike Weber, Bill ...

It’s funny how easy it is to think of Chris Val Allsburg’s picture books as whimsical tales for children. Sure, Jumanji seems like a delightful romp about a jungle-themed board game whose obstacles ...

AUTHOR Chris Van Allsburg has revealed how brass monkey weather led to him creating the jungle fantasy Jumanji. The American writer was working as a sculptor in a freezing artist’s studio when he ...