Thursday, March 13, 2008

New World

This morning I read The Arrival by Shaun Tan, and it's one of the most extraordinary, fantastic, moving things I've ever read (I cried at the end of it, but in a good way). I use the word "read" loosely because the book is all pictures, and these pictures are more effective than any commentary I could write about the book, so here you go:






1 comment:

Jenny said...

Wow! I'm definitely going to have to put this on my list. These illustrations remind me of the book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by VanAllsburg (love him!).