An acclaimed Australian artist, author and illustrator of picture books. The excellency of Shaun Tan’s creative output has been widely acknowledged all over the world. He has been the recipient of Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and numerous other awards for individual books and achievements. He has won Oscar for directing “The Lost Thing”, a short animated film based on Shaun’s best selling picture book.
Since 1945 in Australia, the most anticipated week on the children’s book lovers’ calendar is the CBCA Book Week . This year the 2021 CBCA Book Week kicks off on Saturday 21st […]
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Those who loved Shaun Tan’s award-winning “Tales from Outer Suburbia” (a compilation of surrealistic short stories) would be delighted with his latest creation, the sister volume “Tales from the Inner
“What Miscellaneous Abnormality is That?” is a Shaun Tan creation that was not meant as a stand-alone book. It is a limited-edition companion volume to the original DVD with the
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“The Lost Thing” was first published in 2000. It ended up being a multi-award winning picture book, which in 2004 was reinvented as a highly acclaimed theatre production (by Jigsaw
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Shaun Tan is the Australian author and illustrator whose work I fell in love with at first sight. It was the sight of “The Red Tree”. The book has received