Review, analysis and comparison of jumanji the book in 1981 and the film in 1995.

Jumanji, a classic story which started out as a children's book has also been converted into the movie media form. Jumanji, a children's picture book which was written and illustrated by Chris Van Ellsberg in 1981, Jumanji was the Caldecott Medal Winner of 1982, with some of the most detailed pictures I personally have ever seen done by a free hand illustrator. The book Jumanji is about two children, Peter and Judy, whose parents go out to …

…color when compared to everything else in the room. And my second complaint is that Jumanji's (the movie) action and sequent of events were at a rapid pace and hard for me to keep up. Basically, if I looked away for a minute I would have missed how a certain scene or character entered the movie. Besides those two complaints of mine, Jumanji was an enjoyable movie to watch. The same goes with the book.