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

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 ...

Artist and author Shaun Tan creates semi-mechanical and ... They all seemed happy enough though, so maybe that didn't matter." Tan wrote The Lost Thing early in his career when he doubted whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...