Shaun Tan

Little Kitten – The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan Film Narrated By Tim Minchin

by podblack on June 23, 2010

This is my favourite Shaun Tan book — born in Perth, like me, and from a similar neighborhood (I think he lived about two suburbs away from me and the images in some of his works are rather familiar). The film is narrated by another local — Tim Minchin! Check out the official site at [...]

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Shaun Tan In The New York Times!

by podblack on November 21, 2009

From the NY Times: Tan’s work overflows with human warmth and childlike wonder. But it also makes a perfect adult bedtime story, a little something to shake loose your imagination from the moors of reality right before your own dreams kick in. If you have a look through my Skeptical Books for Children series, you [...]

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Stop What You’re Doing! New Shaun Tan Book!

by podblack on June 12, 2008

Today I was in Fremantle, walking to the train station after dropping off the car for repairs, and I realised that there’s something I failed to pick up the last time I went book-hunting. It was too early (and too far to walk when I already had a circuitous route home) to go to the [...]

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