The Stranger

Excellent book by Chris Van Allsburg. If you like cliff hangers and mysteries, this is a great book for you. As a teacher, I use it first for the joy of reading it, and next, to teach how to make inferences and draw conclusions. These are difficult concepts for students and The Stranger provides a most interesting context to do so through text and pictures.

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.

Great book for inferencing

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.

I love the author

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.

邦訳は村上大先生なのですよ。 でも、わざわざ、翻訳もの読まなくても、 原著は、中学生でも読めると思います。 絵と、この不思議観は、かなりシンクロしていて面白い。 表情の描き方がよいのだと思いました。

This book leaves you with your imagination. The end is not cut and dry, but allows you to think. It’s a good read for all ages.

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Storia poetica con illustrazioni stupefacenti. Consigliatissimo.

Excellent visuals, beautiful drawings and a easy to understand story with a twist. My son loves it. Highly recommended.