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Contos De Lugares Distantes (2012)

by Shaun Tan(Favorite Author)

4.34 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Cosac Naify

review 1: This is an odd little book. The illustrations remind me of some of Jon Scieszka's artwork and those compliment the odd little stories really well. We have a tale about a water buffalo who gives directions, a diver who appears to a mean old neighbourhood lady known only as Mrs. Bad News, brothers exploring whether or not the world keeps going where their maps ends, and other odd little adventures that any neighbourhood (suburban or not) probably has. It didn't quite resonate with me the way I was expecting it to but the artwork - and a tale told through scraps of paper - is worth a peek.
review 2: I love this book. In fact I think Shaun Tan is a genius. Some of the items in this little collection are mostly illustrations, some are mostly text. The best of them a... morere truly memorable for all their apparent simplicity - Stick Figures, The Nameless Holiday, No Other Country, The Water Buffalo. I recommend this to all sorts of people - and a good many of them seem distinctly unimpressed, as though they can't understand what I'm going on about. But I don't care. I still love it. less

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