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The ending turns out, as Walter describes, peaceful. This book could be used for so many lessons! A specific lesson in the story is the importance of caring for the environment. Reading strategies that could be enhanced with this book are predicting and inferring. Van Allsburg does not include text on every page, allowing the reader to infer what is happening. He makes sure to emphasize the important aspects on each page by their size.
Excellent, multi-purpose text for the classroom. Jun 21, Powerm2 rated it really liked it Shelves: This book is realistic fiction where it changes to fantasy and back to realistic fiction. The many words of Chris Van Allsburg tells the stories of a wild adventure a young child takes. This young boy did not have a care in the world about the effects of littering until one night during his dreams, his bed traveled to different areas. These places were not fun to visit due to the ugliness and pollution that has taken over.
Van Allsburg uses his vivid and capturing illustrations to play a huge ro This book is realistic fiction where it changes to fantasy and back to realistic fiction. Van Allsburg uses his vivid and capturing illustrations to play a huge role in this story. His drawings really hone in on the idea of how what we do today can affect our world tomorrow. It is hard to teach students that lesson, but Van Allsburg uses his illustrations to "paint a picture" in your mind for you. He took the pastry from its bag, eating quickly as he walked along. He licked the red jelly from his fingers.
Then he crumpled up the empty bag and threw it at a fire hydrant" This is a great example of how detailed Allsburg is in his dialogue.
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He does not come straight out and describe the character as being careless and messy, but by his detail you can insinuate it. Nov 30, Joan rated it liked it. Walter is simply not an environmentalist: While he is watching a television show about the future, his next-door neighbor, Rose, is watering her birthday present: Walter wishes he could visit the future, and, one night, his dream comes true. But the future is not the one he envisioned.
There are no personal airplanes to zip around in, no robots to take out the tras Walter is simply not an environmentalist: There are no personal airplanes to zip around in, no robots to take out the trash, no machines to create his favorite jelly doughnuts by the thousands. But his new perspective on the future gives him a new dream for his own future.
Children do need to learn to care for the planet, to appreciate nature, to protect the trees. But this little story, with its glib back-to-the-past solution, fails to make the lesson one children will take to heart. Nov 23, Rebecca Leedham rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book is about a boy with very bad habits that show how inconsiderate he is for the environment. He thinks nothing of his littering and non-recycling habits.
One night, the boy goes to bed and travels to the future in his dreams. Instead of seeing robots, he experiences nightmares of a trash-filled home with no trees and a lot of pollution. These dreams bring him to reality and he wakes up and fixes the problems that he has created with his personal litter and mixed trash. This book would be This book is about a boy with very bad habits that show how inconsiderate he is for the environment.
This book would be excellent to bring to the classroom because students can learn friendly environmental habits. Some students may have these lessons in their own home, but other students may be more like the boy in the book. Chris Van Allsburg also created a beautifully illustrated book, once again, as he took the reader away and into the dreams of the boy.
The colors and technique of empty to full page were very precisely chosen. Dec 06, Jakhara Norwood added it Shelves: Just A Dream is a story about a young boy who does not care much about the environment, but is taking through a series of events that may make him think twice. He is brought through these scenarios each time he lays down to go to sleep.
I love the way that the story is framed! It is using the concept of a dream to explore what can happen to the environment if littering continues. The message is clear, but is not necessary being fed to the reader. I just love how it all connects. I'm sure it's just a dream.
Dec 10, Amy Layton rated it really liked it Shelves: I mean, his nightmares are pretty dang close to our reality. And this was published in I know this picturebook essentially teaches children that they have to actively participate towards a clean, environmentally-sound future, but Chris Van Allsburg can't do all the work here!! A boy who litters, doesn't bother to recycle, and scoffs at the neighbor girl who got a tree for her birthday has startling dreams about the future.
Ok, so this comes off as a bit preachy, but at the same time sometimes you need to state things pretty blatantly for kids and adults to get the message. I felt like Van Allsburg and all his creative juices could have thought of a more clever and subtle way to get the message across, so that's why just 2 stars. It's still a good read for classes or A boy who litters, doesn't bother to recycle, and scoffs at the neighbor girl who got a tree for her birthday has startling dreams about the future.
It's still a good read for classes or families talking about ways to be better stewards of the Earth or classes talking about recycling, etc but there might be more tactful and appealing books out there. Dec 11, Gatto rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a fantastic illustrated book about a boy who observes the lack of care that people have for the environment in his town. He then dreams about what the future will be like. He learns that the world is worth working for. The pictures and beautiful and the story is simple.
The message is worthwhile. The story does a good job of conceptually asking people to think about what the consequences of our inaction. I would have students consider how their actions in their own life will affect the fu This is a fantastic illustrated book about a boy who observes the lack of care that people have for the environment in his town. I would have students consider how their actions in their own life will affect the future. If everyone acted like them everyday, what would the world be like? Sep 03, Kristin Fisher rated it really liked it Shelves: Many children will find this story very enjoyable.
While sleeping, a young boy goes on a fun filled adventure to many different areas, as he wants to go to the future.
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When the future isn't what he thinks it is going to be, he wakes up and changes the way he acts. From this story, children can learn that it is important to take care of the Earth and you have to go about life the right way to have your future look the way you want it to. Children can add into the story telling by saying what they Many children will find this story very enjoyable.
Children can add into the story telling by saying what they think is happening at the places he stops during his dream. Apr 24, Krystal F rated it liked it Shelves: Walter goes to sleep and travels to the future in his bed and discovers what a couple of poor choices he makes does to the environment. He jumps from place to place, each one a horrible scene of trash, no trees, or even smog. Eventually he stays in one place in the future, underneath a tree. A book about becoming aware of the environment and the choices we make that could lead to a better environment or a worse one.
Science Fiction and Environmental. May 09, Drew Graham rated it it was ok Shelves: Walter scoffs at the neighbor girl's birthday present of a tree to plant in her yard, but after he has a troubling dream of the future world, will he change his tune? I definitely remember reading this as a kid but I don't remember my head hurting from being hit over the head by it. I don't mind a message piece, but a little subtlety goes a loooong way see: I guess they can't all be Jumanji.
Aug 15, Sarah rated it really liked it Shelves: A boy, not too concerned with the present, longs to live in a technological paradise of the future. His dream comes true when he goes to sleep that night, but the future is a dystopian waste rather than the paradise he dreams. When he awakes, he makes better choices to prevent future disaster. Feb 24, Tim Armstrong rated it really liked it. Van Allsburg's take on the environment and typically a brilliantly evoked tale with yet again a strong moral to take away.
Never meek, always subtle and always effectively executed - the man is a genius! Aug 24, Karen rated it liked it. This book reads like a heavy-handed cautionary tale, at least that is how it would have read about nineteen months ago when the EPA actually helped protect the environment. Now it reads like a very relevant cautionary tale, and that makes me very sad.
Sep 11, Lindsey Schultz rated it liked it Shelves: This was interesting book about a child who wasn't concerned about earth. He littered and didn't seem to care. His dream showed him what his future would be. Even though I wasn't overly excited about the story line, the illustrations were amazing. Mar 29, Katy rated it really liked it Shelves: Walter likes to think about a future full of fun technology, but doesn't go the extra mile to take care of his environment.
One night Walter is transported in his dream to a bleak future in which the earth is forever changed by carelessness. Sep 18, Tania rated it it was amazing. El libro es una conciencia social sobre lo que podemos hacer en este momento para cambiar o mantener el medio en que vivimos. Dec 28, Kelly rated it liked it Shelves: The illustrations carry the story Van Allsburg's illustrations are second to none. But the story was a little strange.
The ending was especially odd There are no discussion topics on this book yet. About Chris Van Allsburg.
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His sister Karen was born in It was named East End Creamery and after they bottled the milk and made the other products they delivered it to homes all around Grand Rapids in yellow and blue trucks. When Chris was born, his family lived in an old farm house next door to the large brick creamery building. But by , the house was surrounded by buildings and other houses. When Chris was three years old, his family moved to a new house at the edge of Grand Rapids that was part of a development; a kind of planned neighborhood, that was still being built.
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There remained many open fields and streams and ponds where a boy could catch minnows and frogs, or see a firefly at night. It was about a mile and a half to Breton Downs School, which Chris walked to every day and attended until 6th grade, when the Van Allsburg family moved again.
It was a street that looked like the street on the cover of The Polar Express. The houses were all set back the same distance from the street. Between the street and the sidewalk grew enormous Elm trees whose branches reached up and touched the branches of the trees on the other side of the street. Chris moved to this street with his mom, dad, sister, and two Siamese cats. One named Fafner and the other name Eloise. Chris went to junior and senior high school in East Grand Rapids.
His interests and talents seemed to be more in the area of math and science. Books by Chris Van Allsburg. Trivia About Just a Dream. You left me, I'm tied. Cause I knew that it just ain't right. So I travel back, down that road. I'm tryin to get my usher over, but I can let it burn. And I just hope you notice your the only one I yearn for. No wonder I'll be missing when I learn? Didn't give you all my love, I guess now I got my payback. Now I'm in the club thinkin all about you baby.
Hey, you was so easy to love. But wait, I guess that love wasn't enough. I'm goin through it every time that I'm alone. And now I'm wishin that you'd pick up the phone. But you made a decision that you wanted to move on. Cuz I was wrong. If you ever loved somebody put your hands up. And now they're gone and you wish you could give them everything. And they're gone and you wish you could give them everything.