In 2004’s The Polar Express, Tom Hanks played a whopping six characters Director Robert Zemeckis used performance capture ...

Tom Hanks loved "The Polar Express" as a book, reading it to his kids every year, to the point where he felt he had to be ...

From his early days as a sculptor to his success as a children’s book author and illustrator, the Rhode Island School of Design alum shares his own story When I was 8 — on the cusp of believing, on ...

Four decades have passed since young readers first climbed on the North Pole-bound Polar Express along with Santa and the narrator of Chris Van Allsburg’s Christmas classic. With 14 million copies of ...

The 2004 movie brings Van Allsburg’s pages to life and Hanks plays six of the author’s characters. At the 2004 press conference for The Polar Express, Hanks recalled meeting Van Allsburg. Tom Hanks ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When families settle in for their annual viewing of The Polar Express this holiday season, few ...

North Shore’s Chris Van Allsburg talks North Pole magic, Tom Hanks, RISD — and how a Boston editor convinced him to become a ...

The Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, located in Tuscarawas County, has held the Polar Express Train Rides for 25 years.

SPENCER — “The Polar Express” has captured the imaginations of children everywhere since it was first published as a picture book in 1985 and made into a film in 2004. Now, the North Carolina ...

A train racing inexorably to the North Pole, with children aboard who have heard a call to help Santa deliver the presents ...