He’s attached to direct and is part of a Fox package to turn The Sweetest Fig into a film. That is the illustrated kid book by Chris Van Allsburg, whose works have been previously transformed ...

Children’s book writer and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg is known ... little kid were books,” adds Van Allsburg, whose latest book is “The Sweetest Fig” (Houghton Mifflin, $17.95).

That’s because both movies adapt books by Chris Van Allsburg. The 1995 adaptation of Jumanji, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Robin Williams, transformed Van Allsburg’s 30-page picture ...