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Shaun Tan


Tundra author Shaun Tan has been illustrating young adult fiction and picture books for more than ten years. His brilliant wordless book, The Arrival, won The CBCA Picture Book of the Year, The NSW Premier’s Book of the Year, and the Community Relations Commission Award, and received a Special Mention at the 2007 Bologna Ragazzi Awards.
He lives in Australia.

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Tales from Outer Suburbia
Written by Shaun Tan

Hardcover | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories
978-0-7710-8402-7 (0-7710-8402-1)

October 28, 2008 | $24.99

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Tales from Outer Suburbia
Written by Shaun Tan

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771084027
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Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban existence filtered through a wickedly Monty Pythonesque lens...