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Article: ``BAD DAY'' IS A MYSTERIOUS, THOUGHT-PROVOKING WESTERN.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 13, 1997
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Byline: KRYS STEFANSKY, STAFF WRITER
IT LOOKS LIKE a coloring book, reads like a mystery and raises questions about where reality ends. If it does.
Author/illustrator Chris Van Allsburg has a reputation for making young readers think. ``The Garden of Abdul Gasazi,'' ``Jumanji,'' ``The Polar Express,'' all blur the line between real and not real. Here's another book to think about.
It is a ``Bad Day at Riverbend'' when the stagecoach pulls into town with something awful scrawled all over its team of horses. The sheriff is clueless, the townspeople scared stiff.
But, gutsy behind his badge, Ned Hardy rides west to look for the missing ...
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Article: REFRESHING THE BAD DAY KARMA IN STRIDE
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);
July 26, 1997 ;
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...Do you ever have a bad day? Often you'll encounter an acquaintance who will say he is having a bad day. Now if he has truly experienced a tragedy, then hats off, that's a bad day. But, if it has merely been one of those instances where ...
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