NEW YORK (AP) - An odd but hopeful picture book about a lovable lost creature ... short animated film category for Australian Shaun Tan's "The Lost Thing" coincides with its release this month ...

Strange, melancholy imagery and pessimistic forecasts ("sometimes the day begins/ with nothing to look forward to") weigh like millstones on this slender book ... Tan's (The Lost Thing) intricate ...

With this haunting, wordless sequence about a lonely emigrant in a bewildering city, Tan (The Lost Thing) finds in the ... Tan adeptly controls the book’s pacing and rhythm by alternating ...

The Lost Thing started life as a picture book more than a decade ago. Shaun Tan writes and illustrates stories that strike an emotional chord to readers of all ages. And not long after the Oscar ...

But this is how writer and illustrator Shaun Tan approaches some of ... there's no hope." Tan's first book The Lost Thing, published in 2000 and later turned into an Oscar-winning short animation ...

The Rabbits is a picture book that may or may not be for kids. This one was written by John Marsden with illustrations by Tan—and since ... animated short—The Lost Thing is also available ...

Tan won an Academy Award for his animated short film, The Lost Thing, and has won international and Australian literary awards. One of his early picture books, The Rabbits, with words by John ...

SHAUN TAN, a keynote speaker at the Children's Book Council of Australia's National ... The tone of these stories is not unlike that of Tan's The Lost Thing (2000), in which most people ...

THERE'S a scene in Shaun Tan's new picture book ... narratives such as The Arrival or The Lost Thing, Tan's richly immersive landscapes lend the book a subtle, affecting power.