Gall, Chris
Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US illustrator and author, active from around 2004, most of his titles being picture books for younger readers, in an animation-friendly heavily linear style reminiscent of the work of Ron Cobb. While intended for his usual audience, the spoofish Prehistoric SF premise of the Dinotrux series beginning with Dinotrux (2009) – that Dinosaurs once bred with something like trucks and ruled the world – carries some bite. Similarly, accompanying the prankish wanderings of a child protagonist (and Robot dog) in There's Nothing to Do on Mars (graph 2008), an Ecological text slowly surfaces: once water returns to the surface of Mars, so do tourists and their junk, suggesting to young Davey's father that it is time to leave Earth even farther behind, and emigrate to Saturn (see Outer Planets). [JC]
Chris Gall
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series
Dinotrux
- Dinotrux (New York: Little Brown Books for Younger Readers, 2009) [graph: Dinotrux: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
- Revenge of the Dinotrux (New York: Little Brown Books for Younger Readers, 2012) [graph: Dinotrux: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
- Dinotrux Dig the Beach (New York: Little Brown Books for Younger Readers, 2015) [graph: Dinotrux: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
individual titles
- Dear Fish (New York: Little Brown Books for Younger Readers, 2006) [graph: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
- Substitute Creacher (New York: Little Brown Books for Younger Readers, 2011) [graph: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
- Nanobots (New York: Little Brown Books for Younger Readers, 2016) [graph: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
- There's Nothing to Do on Mars (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008) [graph: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
nonfiction
- Go for the Moon: A Rocket, a Boy, and the First Moon Landing (New York: Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press, 2019) [graph: illus/hb/Chris Gall]
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