The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Illustrator: Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Andersen Press
The premise behind this unique book of pictures is that the fourteen drawings within it were left with a publisher by a man named Harris Burdick who subsequently disappeared. Each black and white drawing purports to be a single illustration from a different story. Each one has a title and a brief caption but otherwise the only clues to the context are in the pictures themselves, providing a great stimulus for children’s own creative writing.