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| Title | : | Lost & Found |
| Author | : | Shaun Tan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2011 by Arthur A. Levine Books |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Childrens. Picture Books. Fantasy. Fiction. Short Stories. Art |
Shaun Tan
Hardcover | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 4.18 | 8125 Users | 648 Reviews
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A girl finds a bright spot in a dark world.A boy leads a strange, lost creature home.
And a group of peaceful creatures cedes their home to hostile invaders.
Shaun Tan, with his understates voice and brilliant draftsmanship, has proved that he has a unique imaginative window to our souls, and an unparalleled ability to share that opening with pictures and narratives that are as unexpected as they are deeply true.
Originally published in Australia, these three beloved and acclaimed tales were never widely available in the U.S. Now for the first time, The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, and the John Marsden classic The Rabbits are presented in their entirety with additional new artwork and authors' notes. Together they tell a tale that will leave no reader unmoved, about how we love and find what matters most to us.
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| ISBN: | 0545229243 (ISBN13: 9780545229241) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 8125 Users | 648 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Lost & Found
Since The Arrival was still very fresh and vibrant in my mind, this suffered a little in comparison to me. Lovely, all of them. The first two were sweet, with a red leaf to find on every page of the first and the second conveying simplicity even with complex drawings. The last, "The Rabbits," was amaaaaaaaazing!, grim, sad, and unfortunately easily understood to represent historical events - the page that opens to children carried by kites...wow. The book ends with a short essay by TanArtwork: 5 stars.Stories: The Red Tree, 2.5 stars The Lost Thing, 2 stars The Rabbits, 3 starsSome parts of the stories I could get into, other parts were too surreal for me. Out of the three stories, The Rabbits was a Little more straightforward.
Originally published in Australia between 1998 and 2001, the three stories collected in this book all share the themes of alienation and identity confusion. My favorite is The Lost Thing, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning animated short film in 2010. While these three early efforts by Shaun Tan are already visually stunning, they still lack the complexity and scope of his later masterpiece The Arrival.
Shaun Tan's slightly surreal art captures emotion in a way words often can't. I love the way the big picture is shown while small, simple statements bring it home. I could empathize a great deal with the messages in these three stories. I also really enjoyed the authors' notes at the end. It adds a lot to a story to hear from the writer themselves on what they were hoping to portray.
This is a beautiful book, full of wonder, but not completely wonderful. The artwork is spectacular and the stories are better-than-adequate. But I see this as a bittersweet collection. The stories end on a hopeful note, but if you're on meds, you may want to dose up before diving in. Not that the stories are depressing, just a bit gray, ironically. The vibrant artwork contrasts pretty sharply with the subdued voice of the stories, making the read a bit of a push-pull. Try this: have someone read
Amazing art. Intriguing, provocative stories. Not easy to categorize. Children's lit? Maybe the best of art is hard to categorize, in that it sets out in new directions and doesn't easily fit into anything we have seen before. These are early, pre-Arrival Tan, influenced by university post-modern and post-colonial theory, but in spite of this, like some other children's lit, can be understood (maybe) better by kids than some adults. I have in mind here the work of former postmodern lit theory
Three picture books are included in this volume so I will review them separately but overall the book is breathtaking. Although all three books are illustrated with wondrous, inventive, and unrecognizable things like The Arrival, they are the perfect illustrations for the metaphorical tales they are illustrating. Tans artwork is astonishing. His text is less so but thats okay, its still fairly good and thats not what this is about anyway. Also like The Arrival, the pictures pretty much speak for
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