Van Allsburg illustrates the surreal events in a grainy charcoal-black that seems to shimmer on a rough, cream-colored ground. As the boys play, their sibling rivalry gives way to cooperation, and grouchy Walter comes to appreciate his little brother. Several dice-rolls later, they're scrambling to evade a homicidal robot and a scaly "Zyborg pirate" climbing backward through the meteor-hole in the ceiling (its face goes unseen). He picked it up and read, 'Meteor showers, take evasive action.' " The boys don't act too surprised when a giant meteor falls into their tastefully appointed living room, but they do get excited when they see only stars and dark sky outside their windows. to a purple planet called Zathura." Just then, "with a click, a small green card popped out of the edge. While Walter watches TV, Danny glances at the game's "jungle adventure" board, then turns his attention to a secondīoard with an outer-space theme and "a path of colored squares leading. Walter dismisses the box as "just some dumb old game," but his curious younger brother takes it home anyway. (1981), Van Allsburg picks up where he left off, with Danny and Walter Budwing discovering an oblong box in the park.
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