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...Allsburg's vision may be bizarre, but it strikes a broadly responsive chord. Jumanji (1981), his board-game fantasy, won the Caldecott Medal, the industry's most prestigious award for illustrated children's books. The Polar Express, also a Caldecott winner, has appeared on best-seller lists in three Christmas seasons since its release in 1985. In this lovely tale, a boy wakes on Christmas Eve to find a train wreathed in steam below his bedroom window, waiting to take him to the North Pole and a meeting with Santa Claus. In all, the nine books Van Allsburg has published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhinoceroses in The Living Room | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Though many of these outlying efforts have been wildly successful, the zoos themselves are still the front line. A child who rubs noses, even through the plate glass, with a polar bear or a penguin may be far more likely to mature into an eager conservationist than into one who sees animals as toys or accessories. It is hard to walk around a good zoo without caring, deeply, about whether this miraculous wealth of lovely, peculiar, creepy, unfathomable creatures survives or perishes. And it will be a great sorrow if zoos are ever the last place on earth where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Zoo: A Modern Ark | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko (Gorky Park) off on another bizarre case, this one on a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Aug. 14, 1989 | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). In a sequel to his best-selling detective novel Gorky Park, Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko off on another bizarre case. The setting this time is a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 31, 1989 | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Probably it is necessary for us to have heroes so that, by inoculation, we will learn to distrust heroes. Baseball idols peddling autographs at $15 a scribble provide this useful disillusion today. A few decades ago, the clay feet -- frostbitten, of course -- were those of polar explorers. Wally Herbert, who reached the North Pole by dogsled in 1969, writes knowledgeably about two of the most fascinating of the fakers: Robert E. Peary and Dr. Frederick Cook, archrivals in heroics and fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polar Heroics and Delusions | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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