Лучшие книги Шона Тана

Что заставляет многих людей бросить всё и отправиться в одинокое путешествие в неизведанную страну, где нет ни семьи, ни друзей, где всё зыбко, где будущее неопределённо? Этот графический роман — история каждого переселенца, каждого беженца, каждого, кто был вынужден покинуть родные места. Это дань уважения всем тем, кто проделал подобный путь.
Шон Тан — автор и художник-иллюстратор таких книг, как «Ничья вещь», «Красное дерево» и «The Arrival. Прибытие». Все они были удостоены многочисленных международных наград. Мультфильм по книге «Ничья вещь» в 2011 году получил «Оскар» как лучший анимационный короткометражный фильм. Графический роман «The Arrival. Прибытие» получил премию «Болонья Рагацци», а также был признан лучшей книгой с картинками. Произведения Шона активно переводятся и издаются по всему миру. В 2001 году Шон получил премию как лучший художник-фантаст, а в 2011 году он стал лауреатом премии Астрид Линдгрен — самой авторитетной награды в области детской литературы.

Прославленный австралийский художник Шон Тан, обладатель многочисленных премий, автор знамениого графического романа ""Прибытие"", раскрывает тайны повседневной жизни: питомцы, сделанные своими руками, опасные свадьбы, выброшенные на берег морские млекопитающие, крохотные студенты по обмену и тайные комнаты, наполненные тьмой и восторгом.

В завоевавшей множество наград книге «Красное дерево» Шона Тана, уже известного российским читателям по графическому роману «Прибытие», слова и рисунки тонко и с верой в чудеса рассказывают историю о силе надежды, возрождении и вдохновении, пробуждая в нас множество воспоминаний и обращаясь к нашим самым глубоким чувствам.

Полагаю, вы хотите узнать, о чём эта книга, просто прочитав обложку? Понимаю — времени у всех не хватает, дел невпроворот и у большинства из нас наверняка полно занятий поважнее, чем рассматривать книжку с картинками про гигантскую красную вещь, потерянную в странном городе. Может, вы торопитесь на работу, может, спешите в школу, а если сегодня выходной, идёте на пляж собирать крышечки от бутылок. Поможет ли вам эта книга стать лучше во всех этих важных делах? Не думаю. Даже этот текст оказался бесполезной тратой времени. От открытки на обложке тоже никакой пользы. Разве сложно было просто рассказать, о чём книга? В смысле, как ещё узнать,…

Cicada tells the story of a hardworking little cicada who is completely unappreciated for what he does. But in the end, just when you think he's given up, he makes a transformation into something ineffably beautiful. A metaphor for growing up? A bit of inspiration for the unappreciated striver in all of us? Yes, yes, and more.

Eric is a foreign exchange student who comes to live with a typical suburban family. Although everyone is delighted with the arrangement, cultural misunderstandings ensure, beginning with Eric's insistence on sleeping in a pantry cupboard rather than a specially prepared guest room.

When Justin loses the special hat his grandmother made for him, he looks everywhere he can think of to find it. Everywhere, that is, except the lost and found. Mr. Rumkowsky, the old school custodian, is the keeper of all the lost and found items, and everyone is afraid of him, including Justin.With his grandmother coming to visit soon, his mom upset, and the hat nowhere in sight, Justin finally musters the courage to enter Mr. Rumkowsky's domain. There he discovers a whole world of treasures - lost items Justin's friends (and generations of children before them) have been too afraid to claim. Things keep getting weirder and weirder, until way down at the bottom of Rumkowsky's giant box Justin unearths something completely unexpected...

Winner of the Children's Book Council Children's Picture Book of the Year (1999). A dramatically moving allegory of colonisation told from the viewpoint of native Australian animals. This stunning picture book examines the consequences of the arrival of a group of rabbits with entirely unfamiliar ways. The rabbits bring new food and animals, and make their own houses to live in, eventually dominating the environment and its other inhabitants.
The change in the native animals' environment is brilliantly depicted by Shaun Tan's illustrations, which also serve to highlight the 'strangeness' of the rabbits. The parallels with our own experience of colonisation are many; stolen children, the onset of industrialisation, and population increases.

Один день из жизни автора, пишущего в жанрах фэнтези и научной фантастики.

What do the bird king, the thing in the bathroom and the paraffin-oil koala have in common? They all inhabit the unique world of renowned artist, author and illustrator Shaun Tan. Collected from his working sketchbooks, with commentary by the artist, these ideas, studies and doodles offer a special insight into the imagination of this internationally acclaimed storyteller. The Bird King is a collection of sketches, random jottings, preliminary designs for book, film and theatre projects, sketchbook pages and drawings from life. Each of these represent some aspect of a working process, whereby stories generally evolve from visual research and free-wheeling doodles. They are also 'unfinished' pieces created in a single sitting, not originally intended for publication, and for that reason perhaps more revealing of a personal style (and particular obsessions) than other more polished artwork

Inside, the box was crammed with treasures, each more intriguing than the last ... his eyes glistened with delight at the promise these wonders held ...

Artist Shaun Tan is world renowned for his singular vision and storytelling abilities. This art book showcases his sculptural talent, applied here to fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Tan captures the essence of these tales as he brings traitorous brothers, lonely princesses, cunning foxes, honourable peasants and ruthless witches to life in surprising – and illuminating – ways. Introduced by author Neil Gaiman and fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes, The Singing Bones is a feast for the eyes, a profound, powerful celebration of the world's most beloved stories.

Never be late for a parade.
Never forget the password.
Never ruin a perfect plan.

It's all about the rules. But what if the rules feel completely arbitrary? What if your older brother is the only one who gets to make them up all summer long? And what if he's the only one who can save you when the darkness of winter comes rushing in?
As usual, master artist and storyteller Shaun Tan shows us the strange truth of ordinary things - rules, relationsips, despair, and hope - as only he can.

A boy finds a lost 'thing' on the beach where he's scavenging for his bottle top collection. The thing is a large, freakish creature that no one really notices. A quirky tale about finding your place in the world.
A boy discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notices its presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. In spite of his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for this hapless creature, and attempts to find out where it belongs.

Internationally acclaimed author, Gary Crew, and multi-award-winning illustrator Shaun Tan collaborate in this powerful picture book about war to help us all remember...

A beautifully poignant gift book exploring the relationship between man and man's best friend, from the masterful Shaun Tan.

One day I threw my stick at you.
You brought it back.
Then we were walking side by side
as if it had always been this way.

World-renowned artist and storyteller Shaun Tan reflects on the nature of humans and animals in this exquisitely illustrated fable about owner and Dog. A perfect little gift book from an extraordinary talent.