Shaun Tan

Fifteen illustrated short stories, some humorous and some haunting, set in the Australian suburbs--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Tales from Outer Suburbia

From the visionary Shaun Tan, an inspirational story for older picture book readers and beyond

Cicada

The visionary Shaun Tan returns to show us the soul-opening work he's been doing for the past five years.

Tales from the Inner City

Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.

Lost and Found

While looking for bottle caps on the beach, a young boy stumbles upon a lost "thing," and tries to find out who it belongs to.

The Lost Thing

Eric is eternally curious and effortlessly charming - a house guest whose approach to the world will capture your heart. This is a mini gift edition of one of the most loved stories from the multi-award-winning, internationally lauded masterpiece Tales from Outer Suburbia.

Eric

John Marsden

Dramatically moving allegory of colonisation told from the viewpoint of native animals.

The Rabbits

The Singing Bones

Combining humour and surreal fantasy, Shaun Tan pictures a summer in the lives of two boys. Each spread tells of an event and the lesson learned. By turns, these events become darker and more sinister as the boys push their games further and further. Other titles by Astrid Lindgren and Academy Award winner, Shaun Tan include: The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer Suburbia and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival. Read more about Shaun Tan at http: //www.shauntan.net

Rules of Summer

"Pourquoi tant d'hommes et de femmes sont-ils conduits à tout laisser derrière eux pour partir, seuls, vers un pays mystérieux, un endroit sans familles ni amis, ou tout est inconnu et l'avenir incertain?Cette bande dessinée silencieuse est l'histoire de tous les immigrés, tous les réfugiés, tous les exilés, et un hommage à ceux qui ont fait le voyage..." [Source : 4e de couv.]

Là où vont nos pères

An extraordinary slipcase with the multi-awarding book, The Arrival, and a brand new book, Sketches from a Nameless Land.

The Arrival and Sketches from a Nameless Land

Gary Crew

The use of a Viewmaster-like object found while scavenging at the dump results in teenaged Tristan seeing surprising images and leads to unforeseen consequences.

The Viewer

A collection of Shaun Tan's preliminary drawings for book, film and theatre projects, portrait and landscape studies, along with pages from his travelling notebooks.

The Bird King and Other Sketches

Contos dos Subúrbios

For use in schools and libraries only. When Gavin takes his metal detector to a new playground to hunt for lost objects, he instead discovers a group of mysterious children who only appear after dark, and who tease him and try to persuade him to play with them until late into the night.

The Haunted Playground

A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling, threatening to overwhelm her. 'Sometimes you wake up with nothing to look forward to...' As she wanders around a world that is complex, puzzling and alienating, she is overtaken by a myriad of feelings. Just as it seems all hope is lost, the girl returns to her bedroom to find that a tiny red seedling has grown to fill the room with warm light. Astonishing Australian artist, Shaun Tan's latest creation, The Red Tree, is a book about feelings - feelings that can not always be simply expressed in words. It is a series of imaginary landscapes conjured up by the wizardry of his masterful and miraculous art. As a kind of fable, The Red Tree seeks to remind us that, though some bad feelings are inevitable, they are always tempered by hope.

The Red Tree

Lidia Palayo Alonso

Cigarra

A unique 128-page, textless graphic novel, in black, white and sepia, The Arrival draws its inspiration from tales of migrants in past and recent times. The central character is a middle-aged man who arrives in a strange new place and tries to find a place to live, a job and a handle on a new language. He encounters many challenges, all described entirely through visual sequences. The absence of words emphasises the strangeness of the situation and the loneliness experienced by many migrants, but the ending is full of affirmation and hope, when the wife and son the migrant had to leave behind are finally able to join him in their new homeland. www.thearrival.com.au

Shaun Tan

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