num_pages: 16
description: Fourteen black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, entice readers to make up his or her own story. A fictional editor's note tells of an encounter with an author and illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions as samples, each from a different picture book he had written. He left with a promise to deliver the complete manuscripts if the editor chose to buy the books. Burdick was never seen again, and the samples are all that remain of his supposed books. Readers are challenged to imagine their own stories based on the images in the book.
language: English
title: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
titlecomplete: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
genres: Short Stories, Art, Childrens, Writing, School, Young Adult, Picture Books, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 6660
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Picture Book, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Irma Black Award
publisher: Clarion Books