Rules of Summer
It’s impossible to write about Australian children’s literature without considering at least one picture book by award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan. Tan grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western […]
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Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Five: Rules of Summer
“Never break the rules. Especially if you don’t understand them.” – Shaun Tan, Rules of Summer Congratulations! You have made it to the fifth and final day of “Five […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Four: Tales from Outer Suburbia
“whenever we had followed his pointy hoof we’d always been surprised, relieved, and delighted at what we’d found. And every time we’d said exactly the same thing – ‘How did […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Three: The Arrival
Welcome! You have just arrived at day three of The Book Wars’ “Five Days with Shaun Tan.” These past two days we have looked at two picture books with characters […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Two: The Red Tree
“sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to” – Shaun Tan, The Red Tree This past semester I took a creative writing class for the first time since […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day One: The Lost Thing
“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so […]
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