Alan accidentally allows Miss Hester\'s dog Fritz to enter a magician\'s Garden and is horrified when he thinks Fritz has been turned into a duck.
In doing so, he has created exquisite and beautiful images that will continue to haunt readers long after they have left the enchanted Garden of Abdul Gasazi..
In this extraordinary, unusual, and unique picture book, Chris Van Allsburg explores both the real and surreal worlds with incredible deftness.
And even after Alan escaped, the spell of Gasazi still seemed to penetrate into his everyday world.
For in this bizarre and eerie place -- where strange topiary trees loomed -- the evil visage of Gasazi casts its shadow.
It certainly wasn\'t the day that Alan Mitz stumbled into the Garden of Abdul Gasazi.
A 1980 Caldecott Honor Book Sometimes that very thin line between illusion and reality is not as clearly defined as we would like it to be.
A Caldecott Honor Book.
This is without question one of the best and most original picture books in years.-- New York Times Book Review.
Alan accidentally allows Miss Hester\'s dog Fritz to enter a magician\'s Garden and is horrified when he thinks Fritz has been turned into a duck
