I bought this on Wednesday. It is the most wonderful book.
The Arrival won the WA Premier's Prize and Children's Book Award in 2006. In 2007 it won two Aurealis Awards - the Golden Aurealis for Speculative Fiction and the Young Adult Award, then the NSW Premier's Book of the Year.
It is a book without words, but the images are so powerful that you need hours (days?) to pore over them, each time finding something new.
Shaun Tan is a West Australian and his website offers a fascinating view of his work. I think I will need to find his other books as well.
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