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Shaun Tan

Author of The Arrival

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About the Author

Shaun Tan was born in 1974 in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is an artist, writer, and film maker. 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 show more "Picture Book of the Year" award in 2007 and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature. In 2015 his title, Rules of Summer, was one of four books selected for the United States Board of Books for Young People list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults. His book, The Singing Bones, won the 2015 Aurealis Awards for Best Graphic Novel/Illustrated work. He had two books published in 2018, Cicada. and Tales From the Inner City (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Shaun Tan

The Arrival (2006) 3,958 copies
Tales from Outer Suburbia (2008) 1,392 copies
The Red Tree (2001) 835 copies
The Lost Thing (2000) 676 copies
Rules of Summer (2013) 410 copies
Cicada (2018) 295 copies
The Singing Bones (2015) 279 copies
Tales From the Inner City (2018) 272 copies
Eric (2010) 187 copies
The Haunted Playground (1997) 52 copies
Dog (2020) 31 copies

Associated Works

The Wayfarer Redemption (1995) — Cover artist, some editions — 2,302 copies
Starman (2003) — Cover artist, some editions — 1,604 copies
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (2012) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,417 copies
Pretty Monsters: Stories (2008) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,210 copies
Sinner (1997) — Cover artist, some editions — 1,161 copies
Pilgrim (1997) — Cover artist, some editions — 983 copies
Crusader (1999) — Cover artist, some editions — 898 copies
The Nameless Day (2000) — Cover artist, some editions — 613 copies
Threshold (1997) — Cover artist, some editions — 596 copies
The Rabbits (1998) — Illustrator — 501 copies
The Wounded Hawk (2002) — Cover artist, some editions — 429 copies
Beyond the Hanging Wall (1996) — Cover artist, some editions — 427 copies
The Crippled Angel (2001) — Cover artist, some editions — 382 copies
Guys Read: Other Worlds (2013) — Contributor — 237 copies
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Illustrator — 234 copies
Memorial (1999) — Illustrator — 140 copies
The Stone Mage and the Sea (2001) — Cover artist, some editions — 119 copies
The Viewer (1997) — Illustrator — 115 copies
Growing Up Asian in Australia (2008) — Contributor — 113 copies
The Resurrected Man (1998) — Cover artist, some editions — 79 copies
The Sky Warden and the Sun (2002) — Cover artist, some editions — 75 copies
The Book That Made Me (2016) — Contributor — 72 copies
The Storm Weaver and the Sand (2002) — Cover artist, some editions — 65 copies
How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future (1900) — Cover artist, some editions — 64 copies
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume VIII (1992) — Illustrator, some editions — 47 copies
Our lady of Chernobyl (1995) — Illustrator, some editions — 33 copies
The man who lost red (1994) — Illustrator, some editions — 31 copies
The Wrong Grave [subset 1 of 2] (2009) — Illustrator, some editions — 26 copies
The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 2 (2006) — Cover artist, some editions — 22 copies
The Deadly Doll (Shade Books) (1997) — Illustrator — 19 copies
Trapped (2007) — Illustrator — 16 copies
Bonescribes: Year's Best Australian Horror - 1995 (1996) — Cover artist, some editions — 14 copies
Written in Blood [collection] (2003) — Cover artist, some editions — 13 copies
Blackwater days (2000) — Cover artist, some editions — 12 copies
The Pipe (After Dark 10) (1996) — Illustrator — 9 copies
The Stray Cat (After Dark) (1996) — some editions — 9 copies
The Half Dead (1997) — Illustrator, some editions — 8 copies
The Puppet (After Dark 35) (1999) — Illustrator — 7 copies
Crew's 13 : classic tales of the macabre & fantastic (1997) — Illustrator — 6 copies
AussieCon4 68th World Science Fiction Convention — Cover artist, interviewee — 5 copies
Eidolon I (2006) — Cover artist, some editions — 5 copies
Australis imaginarium (2010) — Cover artist, some editions — 3 copies
The Hicksville Horror (After Dark 37) (1999) — Illustrator — 3 copies
Air Fish [anthology] (1993) — Cover artist — 3 copies
Fireflaught (1999) — Cover artist, some editions — 1 copy

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Maybe it was the whisky or the fact that I'm 20 years older than the targeted reading age, but I just didn't get it.
 
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Belbo713 | 25 other reviews | Mar 11, 2024 |
Getting through my Shaun Tan fix. This book was wonderful and totally heart warming. Graphics were soft and beautiful and the words just made me sigh. It's about a dog and his/her owner and how they find each other no matter what. Just a simple wonderful book.
 
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booklover3258 | Mar 7, 2024 |
Beautiful, extraordinarily fully realized.
 
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localgayangel | 357 other reviews | Mar 5, 2024 |
Not at all subtle, will club you over the head with the moral of the story. Really nice illustrations, though.
 
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caedocyon | 26 other reviews | Feb 23, 2024 |

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