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Shaun Tan ~ Tales from Outer Suburbia, 2008 Japan Nail Art, Shaun Tan, Modernism, Magical Art, Children's Book Illustration, Postmodernism, Book Illustration, Animation Art, Surrealism

I was happy to receive the news today that the wonderful Shaun Tan is the recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2011. I remember the emotion when I first met him through The Red Tree at a Bologna book fair a few years ago The jury’s citation reads as follows: Shaun Tan is a masterly visual storyteller, pointing the way ahead to new possibilities for picture books. His pictorial worlds constitute a separate universe where nothing is self-evident and anything is possible. Memories of…

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There are some writer/illustrators that are so tremendously talented that it feels necessary to read everything they have written. Shaun Tan is the perfect example of an author and illustrator who is not to be missed. His books are beautifully rendered, atmospheric, and somehow poignant. They usually leave me feeling happy and sad at the same time,…

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Rules of Summer By Shaun Tan Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-63912-5 Ages 4 and up On shelves April 29th When I was a young teen my favorite book was Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. Steeped in Bradbury’s nostalgia for his youth, I was in the throes of adolescence, probably on […]

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