| The Arrival | 
 enlarge | Author: Shaun Tan
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Bks
Category: Book
List Price: CDN$ 21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1031
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0439895294
EAN: 9780439895293
ASIN: 0439895294
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
Love the Emotional Impact. December 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Who wants a bland book? We all love being emotionally moved by books.
'The Arrival' pictures the experience of moving to a foreign land without any text. This had a big emotional impact on me. As the reader you see and feel the strangeness and lostness of the immigrant. But I think it opens up the experience of 'trying to understand & belong' in other situations. The drawings are open to interpretation.
Without text to give away the story, you have to search out the story for yourself, in beautiful pencil drawings, which I found an engaging and delightful experience.
This is a book I own, reread, and give others.
I came to this book having loved two of Shaun Tan's previous books: 'The Lost Thing'-a fun story, and 'The Red Tree' - melancholy pictures you can empathise with.
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