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January 28, 2008
Another Aussie Award
Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan won Album of the Year at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and I couldn't be happier.
I just love this book. If you haven't read 'The Arrival' get yourself a copy. It is touching, insightful and just plain beautiful. The wordless graphic novel has already won won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year 2007 and the 2007 CBC Picture Book of the Year. It was easily my favourite book from last year, words or no words.
'The Arrival' tells the tale of an immigrant moving to a new place to make a better life for his family. It is a tale that has been told many times, but Tan's approach is different. He creates a world that is not only foreign to the immigrant, but to anyone who enters it. You really get the feeling of being a stranger in a strange land. But the immigrant makes his way, slowly and with some trials. It isnt' a 'kids' book per se, it is a read for the whole family.
Well done Shaun.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at January 28, 2008 10:48 AM