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A little boy chases the dog he's tending into a mysterious garden. Eventually he comes to the mansion of the owner of the garden who is a magician. He says the dog has been turned into a duck and there's no telling when the spell will wear off. The duck takes his hat and flies away. When he gets home the dog greets him. Then the dog brings him his hat. The reader is left to wonder whether it all really happened or not.
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Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
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