Neil R. Coulter's Reviews > The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

I first encountered The Mysteries of Harris Burdick years ago, when my kids were much younger. It was at a time when we were enjoying Chris Van Allsburg's classics (I especially remember reading The Z Was Zapped many, many times; I still have it memorized). I loved Harris Burdick, but never got a copy for our home bookshelf. Yesterday at the Public Library, on the shelf in front with books for sale, there it was: $1.00 for a pristine hardcover copy. I brought it home and admired each story once again. It's all so beautifully eerie and just slightly, possibly, very disturbing. This copy will stay with us, and I'll gaze at it now and then, and smile.

I think my favorite is "The fifth one ended up in France."

I'm grateful to Peter Wenders, as well as to Van Allsburg and, of course, to Burdick himself. :)