The StrangerBy: Chris Van Allsburg

Retold by: Christian

Mr. Bailey was in the truck driving. Suddenly he heard a thump he thought he hit a deer but it was a man . He helped the man to get up. Then he took the man to his truck.

Farmer Bailey took the Stranger to his house and Mr. Bailey got him some rough leather clothing and Mr. bailey asked him a question. But he didn’t understand it and Mr. Bailey said maybe he doesn’t know how to talk. Then Mr. Bailey called the doctor and came to visit he felt the strangers heart, felt his bones looked in his eyes and took his temperature but it didn’t seam to move and he saw there was a bump on his head.

They let the Stranger some clean clothes. It was time for dinner and it fascinated him so Mrs. Bailey blowed on the soup and the stranger did the same and Mrs. Bailey shivered.

The next morning Katy watched the stranger from her bedroom window. All the rabbits took off to the forest as they expected the stranger to go with the rabbits but he did not go with the rabbits. Katy came out of the house and tagged along.

That evening Katy sat with the stranger watching the setting sun. On the sky there were geese in perfect V formation, flew south on the trip that they made every fall. Two weeks passed and the stranger still could not remember who he was.

Another week passed. Farmer Bailey could not help knowing the weather was strange. The pumpkins grew larger when it is fall. One day the stranger climbed the highest hill on the Bailey farm. He looked to the north and saw a puzzling. It was time for him to do something or leave.

But the trees to the south were all red and orange. He ran to a tree he pulled of a leaf from the tree. He held it in his hand and he blowed on the leaf with all of his might and it was going to be fall but who would know that it would be fall maybe his Jack Frost.

At the dinner that evening the stranger was all dressed up. There where tears in farmer Bailey’s eye. The stranger decided to leave.

Then the Baileys were standing there waving good-bye at the stranger and fast the stranger disappeared.The Baileys would never forget about him.