![]() Thus was born "Zathura," Van Allsburg's 2002 sequel to "Jumanji." "Zathura," which has been made into a just-released children's movie, picks up where the first book left off, with the quarrelsome Budwing brothers finding the game left in the park by the "Jumanji" characters. ![]() Maybe the other side could be an outer-space game." ![]() "One side could be the game with jungle perils. "It made me think that there could be two games in one box," said Van Allsburg in a recent telephone interview from his home in Providence, R.I. Van Allsburg got a further push when he discovered a two-sided board game in a 1906 Sears catalog that he was paging through one day. Movie producers also expressed interest in a sequel to the 1995 movie version of "Jumanji," which remains a favorite film with children. Chris Van Allsburg didn't plan to do a sequel to "Jumanji," his popular picture book in which two children find their living room transformed into a jungle when they start playing a board game.Īfter all, Van Allsburg reasoned, what would be the interest in showing children - even different children - playing the same game?īut years of pleas from letter-writing fans persuaded Van Allsburg to think about somehow doing a sequel to "Jumanji," which won the 1982 Caldecott Medal. ![]()
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