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390 pp.
| Viking
| October, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-0-670-01090-5$19.99
(3)
YA
Illustrated by
Shaun Tan.
This book includes nine vividly wrought short stories (all but one previously published). Each features characters wrestling with issues of recognition--of a dead girlfriend, a goddess, a wizard. The most provocative ask readers who the monsters really are in genre-busting takes on the campfire tale, romance, and werewolf myth. Tan's black-and-white chapter opener illustrations help set the eerie mood.
128 pp.
| Scholastic/Levine
| October, 2007
|
TradeISBN 978-0-439-89529-3$19.99
(1)
K-3
Seeking a better life for his family, a man travels to a strange, unfamiliar country. It's the triumph of this lavish, somber, wordless book that readers are kept in sympathetic step with the immigrant hero. Meticulously composed panels propel the action while larger pictures display majestic cityscapes. Subtle shifts from gray to brown to gold underline the story's themes.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2007
2 reviews
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