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“I think Shaun Tan is absolutely amazing. In The Lost Thing he creates a whole world, and in this case it’s a barmy world. It’s so rich in detail. There’s a sense of this being a real other world that you’re allowed to look into. It’s about a boy finding a lost creature on a beach. The boy decides to take it home. Eventually he sets it free again. A less imaginative illustrator may have made this story cute and the situation comforting. Instead, Shaun Tan gives us a massive thing that’s half sea creature, half machine. It is an imaginative book—full of energy—it is also magical, almost gothic.” Read more...
Kate Milner, Cartoonists & Illustrator
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Black Beauty
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Jane Eyre
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Fourteen Wolves: A Rewilding Story
by Catherine Barr & Jenni Desmond (illustrator) -
I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.
by Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick (illustrator)