Tales from Outer Suburbia
Aurealis Award 2008, Ditmar Award 2009, World Fantasy Award nominee 2009.
Shaun Tan follows THE ARRIVAL with a collection of off-the-wall tales combined with his genius illustrations in a unique hybrid format that will build on our current success.
An exchange student who's really an alien, a secret room that becomes the perfect place for a quick escape, a typical tale of grandfatherly exaggeration that is actually even more bizarre than he says... These are the odd details of everyday life that grow and take on an incredible life of their own in tales and illustrations that Shaun Tan's many fans will love.
Contents:
- The Water Buffalo
- Eric
- Broken Toys
- Distant Rain
- Undertow
- Grandpa's Story
- No Other Country
- Stick Figures
- The Nameless Holiday
- The Amnesia Machine
- Alert But Not Alarmed
- Wake
- Make Your Own Pet
- Our Expedition
- Night of the Turtle Rescue
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1974) is an Australian illustrator and author of children's books and speculative fiction cover artist. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Beside The Lost Thing, The Red Tree and The Arrival are chapterbooks he has written and illustrated.
Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1974 and, after freelancing for some years from a studio at Mount Lawley, relocated to Melbourne, Victoria in 2007. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the "Book of the Year" prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia "Picture Book of the Year" award in 2007, and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006.
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