About the Book: Bad Day at Riverbend
Master artist and storyteller Chris Van Allsburg presents a surrealistic
journey into the imagination.
This provocative story within a story leads readers to ponder the realities of
fictional worlds and the lives of the characters who populate them.
Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just
like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled
through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one
ever left.
The day the stagecoach stood motionless in the center of town,