Hero Boy's house is in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is the town Van Allsburg grew up in and where the film's premiere took place. For the film, drawings of #1225 were used to create the CGI model of the train and most of its sounds were recorded from #1225. He was also inspired by the locomotive's number, 1225, which is the date of Christmas, 12/25. The locomotive in the book is based on Pere Marquette 1225, a N1-class steam locomotive which Van Allsburg used to play on as a child while attending football games at Michigan State University, where it was put on display at the time. Van Allsburg made a couple of references related to himself in the book, which were carried over into the film along with other Van Allsburg-related references. Van Allsburg converted to Judaism, his spouse's faith. They have two daughters, Sophia and Anna. After that, Van Allsburg wrote his fist book, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in 1979.Ĭhris Van Allsburg currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, Lisa Van Allsburg. One of them, Walter Lorraine at Houghton Mifflin, thought he would be good at writing children's books. His wife, Lisa, who used picture books in her elementary school art classes, thought his sketches would make good illustrations for children's books and, with encouragement from illustrator David Macaulay, who was a friend of Lisa, showed them to children's book editors. Van Allsburg found himself struggling for time in the studio and decided to sketch his ideas at home. After graduation, Van Allsburg set up a sculpture studio. He graduated in 1972 before moving to Providence, Rhode Island to attend the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a master's degree in sculpture in 1975. He initially studied law, but found that the art classes he took were more interesting, so he majored in sculpture. His family later moved again to East Grand Rapids where he attended middle and high school.Īfter school, he attended the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Michigan, which included an art school at the time. The new house was so close to his elementary school that he could walk there for class. At the time, his family lived in an old farm house, but they moved to a new house in the outskirts of Grand Rapids when Chris was three years old. Van Allsburg was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan as the second child to Richard and Doris Christianen Van Allsburg.
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