Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Dog in Chris Van Allsburg's books

Awhile ago the Blue Rose Girls posted about finding the dog in Chris Van Allsburg's picture books. I did a project on Van Allsburg a long time ago and I thought some of you might like this key. I haven't added his newest book Probuditi, but if you're having trouble finding the dog it appears as a teapot on a shelf. I think if you click on my key you might be able to see a bigger copy, but if you want me to email you a copy just leave me a comment with your email address.


I also had to share this quote that I think explains a lot of Van Allsburg's work.
"Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door. The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster in clearly superior to one that definitely does not."
- Chris Van Allsburg
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43 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:31 PM

    Marcel from The Sweetest Fig isn't Fritz "the dog." I always thought he was, but I read somewhere that Fritz is on the label of a wine bottle in the kitchen. I never realized until I read that, but Marcel doesn't have the brown around his eye...

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  2. Anonymous7:45 PM

    would you please send me a copy of the fritz key. i am doing an author study and this would be great to add to my display
    Daisycakes1214@aol.com

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  3. Anonymous1:25 PM

    Please email me a copy of the Fritz key!! Thank you...ellij28@yahoo.com

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  4. Anonymous2:41 PM

    Please mail me a copy of the Fritz key. Thanks
    childlib253@yahoo.com

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  5. Two Degrees4:37 PM

    COuld you email me at minmintong@hotmail.com?

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  6. Anonymous9:28 AM

    can you email me fast at: lets_go_leafs29@hotmail.com

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  7. Mike E.11:24 PM

    Please e-mail me a copy. thank you so much!!!
    mcespino@gmail.com

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  8. Anonymous6:22 PM

    Can you send me a copy of the Fritz key!
    Thanks

    taylor.bunny33@gmail.com

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  9. Anonymous12:53 PM

    Could I please have a copy of the key to use with my fourth graders? Thank you so much!
    Toni

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  10. Anonymous10:53 PM

    Can you email me the key at varmsb@verizon.net? Thank you!

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  11. Anonymous10:33 AM

    Can you please send me a copy of the Fritz key to apolek@nasd.k12.pa.us and also just in case ampolek@comcast.net. Thanks, it looks awesome but it is so small.

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  12. Anonymous9:45 AM

    I am doing an author study on Chris van Allsburg, I would love to have the key to finding fritz. Please email me at jackie.vanderven@sistransfiguration.org. Thank you!

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  13. Anonymous3:53 PM

    Hi there, I am a children's Librarian and I'd love to share your findings of Fritz with my students. If you could send me a copy of your Fritz key I'd really apprecaite it!
    Thanks in advance...

    beadifferent@live.com

    Catherine

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  14. mark Miller2:58 AM

    if u could send me a copy of the key and if possible a copy of the key with no answers on it yet
    Thank you very much
    Mark

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  15. Anonymous2:55 PM

    Could you please email me the key to
    Ctarantino@butler53.com

    Thank you.

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  16. Anonymous4:16 PM

    I would greatly appreciate a copy of your key.
    Many thanks.

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  17. Anonymous9:29 PM

    Hello!

    Great key!
    I would love to have a copy of that for an author study that I am doing.
    miriam_herbold@hotmail.com

    Thanks bunches!

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  18. Anonymous3:00 PM

    Hi,

    I'd love to have a copy of this key.

    Thank you,
    rozcar(at)gmail(dot)com

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  19. Anonymous8:17 PM

    It would be wonderful to have a copy of this! My email is: speedygirl@shaw.ca
    Thank You!

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  20. Anonymous9:31 PM

    oh thats not fritz on the sweestest fig its on a page where hes in the kichen and theres a bottle and a pic on it thats fritz

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  21. Anonymous9:59 AM

    Could you please email me at
    mariap2468@gmail.com. Thank you. My class is starting a project on him and my teacher said thatat the end of it we'll have to find the dogs in his books. Also, if you have any good sites for chris van allsburg that would help. Thanks!

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  22. Anonymous4:09 PM

    Please email me the answer key to finding Fritz.
    Thank you.
    stam@classicalacademy.com

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  23. Anonymous4:03 PM

    Email a copy please. jtrosen2001@gmail.com

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  24. Unknown9:24 PM

    Just found your post. I am doing an Author Study this month of Chris Van Allsburg and would love an answer key to finding fritz, if you are still sharing. Many thanks, Kellie
    kcs5292@gmail.com

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  25. Anonymous6:11 PM

    Could you email it to me please

    clopez@mesquiteisd.org


    I would really appreciate it! Thank you

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  26. Unknown1:48 PM

    Would you please email me a copy of your Fritz key at jeannek@rcs.k12.in.us Thanks

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  27. Mike E.12:45 AM

    Please send me a copy of your Fritz key thank you.

    Michael.Espino@twinriversusd.org

    Thanks you

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  28. Anonymous10:15 AM

    Hi!
    I'd love to have a copy of this key.

    Thanks you

    welly645@hotmail.fr

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  29. Anonymous12:29 PM

    I'd love a key! Can you send it to me?

    My address is:

    jamesa@sabine.k12.la.us

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  30. Anonymous8:35 AM

    Please email me a copy of your key if this is not too late.
    jroy@sc.rr.com

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  31. Mira4:28 PM

    Thanks for the offer to forward a copy of the "key" to Finding Fritz!

    I am a K-5 enrichment teacher at a Department of Defense school in NC. I'm most appreciative.

    Regards, mm

    Mira.moehrke@am.dodea.edu

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  32. Valerie11:50 AM

    I would be great if you could sent me a copy of your work on the dog. I'm french and I'm studying this author at university. valeriehibon@aol.com . Thank you.

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  33. Teisa Linscott11:12 AM

    Can you sent me a copy of the key. I'm teaching some 2nd graders about this author. Thanks. teisalinscott@gmail.com

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  34. Kelli10:19 AM

    I'd love to have a key! A colleague and I do a Chris Van Allsburg activity for our school's literacy night. The students would really enjoy this!
    regan0128@gmail.com

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  35. Angela West7:32 AM

    Please send me a copy!

    Thanks,
    Angela
    angelawest@johnston.k12.nc.us

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  36. Anonymous12:58 PM

    Please email me a copy of this!

    Thank you!

    meghanfitz6@gmail.com

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  37. Anonymous8:42 AM

    Please send me the copy! Thanks! :) wsnyder@mwsd.cc

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  38. Anonymous1:24 PM

    Please email me: kel4ravens@gmail.com

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  39. Anonymous7:06 PM

    Would you please email me :) 2015971@rcsdk12.org

    Thanks,
    Ms. B

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  40. Anonymous2:18 PM

    Hi! Would you be able to email me a larger copy of the Van Allsburg key? My students will love this! Thank you, Ms. P. (aperna1@hotmail.com)

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  41. Anonymous5:16 PM

    Does anyone know where Fritz is located in "The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie"?

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  42. Unknown9:30 AM

    I would like a copy of the Key. Thank you. Lybarra@southsanisd.net or lydiaybarra@yahoo.com

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  43. Unknown5:10 AM

    Good morning,
    Could you please send me the Fritz key? I am doing an author study and would love to use it. Thank you! chultgren@ewsd.org

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