Bad Day at Riverbend

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Bad Day at Riverbend

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Author	Chris Van Allsburg
Illustrator	Chris Van Allsburg
Country	United States
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date	1995
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Preceded by	The Sweetest Fig
Followed by	Zathura

Bad Day at Riverbend is a 1995 children's book by American writer Chris Van Allsburg.^[1][2]

Plot[]

On a quiet day at the town of Riverbend, local sheriff Ned Hardy hears that a strange matter is covering many citizens. When he heads out to investigate, he finds the local stagecoach driver covered in this mass and unable to speak. Distraught but unwilling to surrender, Hardy heads on and finds more people covered in this substance. Eventually he is himself covered in this substance and unable to move or speak.

It is then revealed that the strange matter was none other than crayon scribbles, and that the sheriff is part of a coloring book left on its own by a small boy who gets tired and leaves.

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