by Chris Van Allsburg, Todd Strasser · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582401334
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«Jumanji» is the children's fantasy novel by Chris Van Allsburg and Todd Strasser, published by Penguin in paperback (39 pages, in English).
Peter and Judy find a mysterious jungle board game, Jumanji, in the attic, and when they start playing they unleash an adventure full of dangers: the game must be finished before it finishes them. The book, based on the movie, also presents the story of a boy who was trapped in the game's world for twenty-five years.
It is part of the Penguin Joint Venture Readers series, a collection of graded readers in English.
Intended for young readers and students of English as a foreign language, with simple reading and beginner level.
Chris Van Allsburg is an American writer and illustrator 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, and 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.
