Tales From Outer Suburbia

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The cut and paste collage idea in these early stages is often extend to the finished production with many of his illustrations using such materials as "glass, metal, cuttings from other books and dead insects". Don’t ask me what the age range is, or how you’re going to catalog it, or what kind of person you could give it to for a birthday present.

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The circle shape (though not the colour) repeats on the double page spread, though this time the “solid roundel” is the circle of the suit, obscuring the man’s face. Concrete structures were erected all over the world as housing projects, courthouses, schools, churches, hospitals—and city halls. For non-fiction writing, children can produce recounts of the strange events, reports on the strangeness of their own hometowns or explanations of how the ‘Amnesia Machine’ or secret ‘Inner Courtyards’ work. Tales from Outer Suburbia is my kind of book: eccentric characters and their naturally weird stories accompanied by gorgeous, bizarre and even heartwarming illustrations. Polaroids are an example of objects which have come and gone from our lives throughout history, mostly because something new has been designed to fulfil their functions more efficiently.

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So the story is largely about the kind of anxiety that can arise when hosting a guest, as well as more general issues of cultural miscommunication. In short, I believe Shaun Tan has chosen the detail of the elephant’s foot in reference to this ancient parable, turning Tan’s contemporary story of Eric into a parable as well, though its moral is less clearly spelt out: Our own countries are our own separate pieces of the elephant. Still, there’s enough to provide basic themes, which only prove more relevant to society as time goes on. But the sidewalks on my grandmother’s street were different, they were like the ruins of ancient Rome, purified and ennobled by time, baked clean by the sun. Online art teacher Aaron Blaise sells a lesson which teaches you how to create creatures out of clouds.With the combination of a matter-of-fact narrative and endearing pencil drawings of the diminutive aspects of Eric which are never mentioned in the text, Tan effectively explores issues of identity and cultural difference. The illustrations include etchings, woodcuts, collages, pastels, lithographs and paint, and are variously indebted to, among others, comic strips, Edward Hopper and Samuel Palmer. The shapes remind me of the dominant shapes in Shaun Tan’s illustration for “Grandpa’s Story”, above. Only in picture books do you regularly find the size and shape of the book itself has something to do with the content. A boy can’t understand how the grass has died beneath a front-lawn creature which had only been there for a few hours.