Created by illustrator Shaun Tan who worked as a concept artist for the films Horton Hears a Who and Pixar’s WALL-E – his new picture book The Arrival has received acclaim throughout the world and enjoyed readers of all ages.
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Wow, the quiet imagery just send chills up my spine. I need to get this – if only for ‘The Place of Nests’…
‘The Suitcase’
‘The Old Country’
‘Flock’
‘Harbour’
‘Inspection’
‘The City’
‘The Market’
‘The Place of Nests’
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The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
