- Children's fiction, Trees, fiction, Emotions, fiction, Child and youth fiction
"Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to ..." Intricate illustrations vividly portray troubled emotions, ending with a bright possibility.
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Contemporary, character-led, grave and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Shaun Tan
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Simply Read Books, Lothian Children's Books, Lothian Publishing Company
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780734405395
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Shaun Tan (born in 1974) is an Australian artist, writer, and film maker. He won an Academy Award for *The Lost Thing*, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include *The Red Tree* and *The Arrival*. **Source**: [Shaun Tan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Tan) on Wikipedia.
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