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The Arrival
Shaun Tan

$40.00 (Hardcover book / Lothian )

The Arrival is a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a silent graphic novel. Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of a migrant leaving his home, crossing an ocean to a strange new city and eventually learning how to live there. The migrant is unable to understand such things as the language, transportation, food and housing of this foreign place and therefore neither should the reader, hence the absence of words.The artwork embraces the texture of old sepia photographs that typically documented social life during the early nineteenth century. The entire work of art simultaneously appears as a strange photo album.

Shaun Tan is an award winning author and illustrator, well-known for The Lost Thing which was a CBCA Honour Book in 2002 and The Red Tree, which was...

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CBCA Shortlist 2008 - Older Readers

Pharaoh

Jackie French

The Ghost's Child

Sonya Hartnett

Marty's Shadow

John Heffernan

Love Like Water

Meme McDonald

Black Water

David Metzenthen

Leaving Barrumbi

Leonie Norrington

CBCA Shortlist 2008 - Early Childhood

Shhh! Little Mouse

Pamela Allen

Cat

Mike Dumbleton and Craig Smith

The Night Garden

Elise Hurst

Lucy Goosey

Margaret Wild and Ann James

CBCA Shortlist 2008 - Picture Book of the Year

The Peasant Prince

Li Cunxin and Anne Spudvilas

The Island

Armin Greder

You And Me: Our Place

Leonie Norrington

Ziba Came On A Boat

Liz Lofthouse and Robert Ingpen

Requiem For A Beast

Matt Ottley

Dust

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CBCA Winners 2007

The Arrival

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