Article: ``BAD DAY'' IS A MYSTERIOUS, THOUGHT-PROVOKING WESTERN.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)

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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