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Article: Back in the game: After a 7-year hiatus, Chris Van Allsburg charms the bestseller list again with a sequel to `Jumanji'.(The Providence Journal)
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- October 30, 2002
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It's been more than 20 years since Chris Van Allsburg left us hanging:
What would become of Danny and Walter Budwing, the two young boys who'd found the Jumanji jungle adventure game their neighbors had left under a tree in the park?
The hand-scrawled note on the game box said "read instructions carefully," but the Budwing boys were not the type to read directions. So what fate would befall them if they didn't learn how to end the game that had turned their neighbor's house into a wild jungle complete with roaring lions, rampaging rhinoceroses and erupting volcanoes?
``Jumanji,'' a Caldecott Award-winning book written and illustrated by Van ...