The Stranger

This is one of my favorite story for fall. My students enjoy the mystery of the stranger and I love hearing them discuss who he might be.

Love this illustrator. The story is very sweet and a little sad.

Beautiful book for fall in the classroom. I used it with my mentor sentence lessons. Good for infetencing and predicting. Kids loved that it was same author as Polar Express they like prior knowledge connections.

I love the author

Read to my class. They loved it

I was using a unit on Chris Van Allsburg books to teach my Learning Disabled middle schoolers about Inferring, a skill that's really tough to master for those with language processing deficits. I'd not read this particular book, though I love the artwork and simple text of other books of his; this is a dandy. Mysterious and moody, there are opportunities in layers on each page to infer meaning. If you just want to curl up with a kid for a few special moments (as I did with my young grandson), this is a perfect vehicle to find out how a little dude sees the world and makes his own meaning.

This is a book about a mysterious stranger whom a farmer accidentally hits with his truck one day. The stranger cannot talk, but there is definitely more to him than meets the eye. The farm where he stays experiences summer one week longer than anywhere else. It is definitely a fun read.

One of my favorite children's authors, fun stories with a surprise at the end - Same author as Polar Express, so well written and the pictures are beautiful.