Article: Shaun Tan: Tales from Outer Suburbia.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Tales from Outer Suburbia.(Brief ...
Children's Bookwatch;  May 1, 2009 ;     397 words ...Tales from Outer Suburbia Shaun Tan Scholastic 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 0545055873, $19.99 www.scholastic.com Everyday suburban life is presented in ...

Article: OUTER SUBURBIA; Julia Slavin's Stories Chart Some ...
The Washington Post;  September 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ...A few years ago, Julia Slavin developed a huge crush on her teenage lawn boy. When he arrived, tan and buff, to cut her grass in upper Northwest Washington, she would wriggle into a miniskirt, blast Jane's Addiction on the stereo and freshen her glossy pink lipstick. She counted the days between

Article: The Monster Mansions Of Outer Suburbia; Stately ...
The Washington Post;  May 15, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Tract mansions are those huge, solemn neo-Falcon Crest post-split-level stately-home statements erupting from tiny treeless pieces of former farmland all over America. Sooner or later they will memorialize the frantic striving and get-mine optimism of our era the way the great dinosaurs of

Article: For Young Readers
The Washington Post;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... reading! -- Kristi Jemtegaard TALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIA By Shaun Tan Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic. $19.99, age ... can find relief in this quirky collection from Shaun Tan, creator of the acclaimed graphic novel "The ...

Article: Magic, mystery and mice
The Irish Times;  December 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... A delightful rhyming story celebrates the adventures of a straying busker's cat. Age: four Tales from Outer Suburbia By Shaun Tan (Templar, pound(s)12.99) Quirky anecdotes and quirky artwork combine to provide offbeat insights into ...

Article: Qld: Children's books of the year announced
AAP General News (Australia);  August 21, 2009 ;     324 words ... ... Council of Australia Awards announced on Friday at Sea World on the Gold Coast: Older Readers: Tales From Outer Suburbia, by Shaun Tan. Honour awards: Into White Silence, by Anthony Eaton; A Rose for the Anzac Boys, by Jackie French. Younger ...

Article: Children's Books Dinah Hall recommends the best new books to help ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the wrong one. Big, clever, funny. For ages 3-6. The world falls silent when you pick up Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Templar, pounds 12.99) and are sucked into his bizarre vision. Tan is an extraordinary artist, his ...