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Rules of Summer
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Academy Award and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Shaun Tan combines humour and surreal fantasy to picture a summer in the lives of two boys. The boys hide from a giant red rabbit and outwit a crowd of scary eagles, but when their games become ever...
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See moreNever break the rules. Especially if you don't understand them.
The eagerly awaited new book from award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan.
Description
Academy Award and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Shaun Tan combines humour and surreal fantasy to picture a summer in the lives of two boys. The boys hide from a giant red rabbit and outwit a crowd of scary eagles, but when their games become ever darker and sinister, they learn that breaking the rules can be dangerous.
Visually fascinating. - The New York Times
Thrilling, disturbing and hard to shake...one startling image after another. - Wall Street Journal
Other titles by Shaun Tan include: The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer Suburbia, and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival.
Read more about Shaun Tan at shauntan.net
Product Details
INFORMATION
Barcode: 9780734410672
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 October 2013
Country: Australia
Imprint: Lothian Children's Books
Illustration: 4-colour
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Length: 11.0mm
Width: 276.0mm
Height: 310.0mm
Weight: 670g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In school he became known as the 'good drawer' which partly compensated for always being the shortest kid in every class. He graduated from the University of WA in 1995 with joint honours in Fine Arts and English Literature, and currently works full time as a freelance artist and author in Melbourne. Shaun began drawing and painting images for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager, and has since become best known for illustrated books that deal with social, political and historical subjects through surreal, dream-like imagery. Shaun has also worked as a theatre designer, and worked as a concept artist for the films Horton Hears a Who and Pixar's WALL-E. He is currently directing a short film with Passion Pictures Australia.
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