Tales From Outer Suburbia

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Kurtan: You don’t remember? Year 6 camping trip, he brought in an old army camp bed and it had blood on it. After reading the story, I realise how many of the people in the crowd are not looking at the amazing giant object at all. Like the narrator, whose reason for writing is presented in a slightly different font, they soon lose their sense of wonder and instead turn to the small, near and relatable: The flavours of their ice-creams.

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When The Arrival came out it was unmistakably brilliant but caused some people no end of trouble. Where do you put it? Is it a children’s book? Is it for teens? Adults? Bookstores were baffled beyond belief. Libraries just cataloged him as everything and threw his books up willy-nilly on their shelves. Because it is a much quieter book than The Arrival and can’t glom onto an existing community like the graphic novel advocates, my suspicion is that Tales from Outer Suburbia will make a relatively smaller splash. This is not to say that the book is any less inventive. If I wanted to I could write a review where I carefully and closely examined each and every story here piece by piece. Tempt me not. There are only so many hours in the day, and I should let you find the other remaining surprises on your own. I hope this book reaches as many kids, teens, and adults as possible. After all these words I still don’t think I’m the right reviewer for it. But if I can make anyone even slightly curious about its content then I’m happy. Inadequate, sure, but content. As with much of Tan’s work, the words and pictures tell different parts of the story. Reading the words without the pictures makes for an interesting exercise in considering the way the two different means of communication work together. The text has a rich and modern voice which speaks to the reader as if speaking in confidence to a friend. The illustrations are powerful, varied in style and form, and stand in their own right as pieces of captivating art. You could quite easily take one out of context and use as a trigger for writing. urn:oclc:826417549 Republisher_date 20150303031433 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20150210085204 Scanner scribe11.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Usl-grade-level 11-12 Usl_hit true Worldcat (source edition)Tales From Outer Suburbia is a collection of various stories. Some are published independently e.g. Eric, which exists as a miniature stand-alone book. ( I’ve previously written about Eric here.) The common thread between stories in this compendium: All stories are set in the same, off-kilter suburb. Some of the stories have no words, and might consist only of a single frame of narrative art. Creative Arts teachers find this really useful in the classroom because these images can ostensibly work as story starters, though I do wonder if students might experience the same awe as I do when confronted with these pieces, unable to come up with anything at all! CREATIVE LEARNING IDEAS: ART OF YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD So in this case we have a door: the pantry door functioning as symbolic anagnorisis. Always look at whether a door is open or shut, because the meaning is highly dependent upon that. NEW SITUATION Eric’ was originally a name written underneath a pointy-headed character carrying a tiny suitcase, drawn in a sketchbook while on holiday. I often draw characters and give them ordinary names like ‘Bob’, ‘Dave’ or ‘Alan’ (which I find very entertaining for some reason), but this ‘Eric’ seemed especially amusing and believable. I wondered what his story might be.

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In typically Tan style, the story ends on a fade out: ‘We never found out who the diver was, or what happened to him.’ Surely not! If I’m reluctant to delve into Tan’s work, that’s probably because whatever I say, it doesn’t make a dent in all that can be said. This beautifully illustrated book takes a quirky look at some of the mysteries of urban life. Once you start reading it's very hard to stop reading more of these short stories filled with darkness and delight. Author: Julia Eccleshare Source: Lovereading4Kids Photographs by Gregory Crewdson are highly staged and a lot of work goes into the post-processing as well, to create eerie stills of the suburbs, often at night at on dusk. Robb, Peter (13 September 2013). "The view from outside". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 16 September 2013.In short, I believe Shaun Tan has chosen the detail of the elephant’s foot in reference to this ancient parable, turning Tan’s contemporary story of Eric into a parable as well, though its moral is less clearly spelt out: Our own countries are our own separate pieces of the elephant.