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The Polar Express / written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.

Van Allsburg, Chris, (author.). Neeson, Liam, (narrator.). Moss, Michael, (musician.).

Summary:

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0395389496
  • ISBN: 9780395389492
  • Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm + 1 audio disc (16:40 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
  • Edition: Twentieth-fifth anniversary ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2010], 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Book originally published in 1985.
Includes a keepsake ornament.
Accompanying CD produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., ℗2000.
Includes a note from the author on the back dust jacket flap.
Formatted Contents Note:
Sample text for The Polar Express / written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. "On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed. I did not rustle the sheets. I breathed slowly and silently. I was listening for a sound -- a sound a friend had told me I'd never hear -- the ringing bells of Santa's sleigh. 'There is no Santa, ' my friend had insisted, but I knew he was wrong. Late that night I did hear sounds, though not of ringing bells. From outside came the sounds of hissing steam and squeaking metal. I looked through my window and saw a train standing perfectly still in from of my house."
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Music by Michael Moss.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Liam Neeson.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
CD recorded at Soundscape, Boston, MA.
Awards Note:
Caldecott Medal Winner, 1986.

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Subject:
North Pole > Juvenile fiction.
Santa Claus (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Christmas stories.
Railroad trains > Juvenile fiction.
Passenger trains > Juvenile fiction.
Railroad stories.
North Pole > Fiction.
Santa Claus > Fiction.
Christmas > Fiction.
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Children's audiobooks.
Audiobooks.

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