I was happy to receive the news today that the wonderful Shaun Tan is the recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2011. I remember the emotion when I first met him through The Red Tree at a Bologna book fair a few years ago The jury’s citation reads as follows: Shaun Tan is a masterly visual storyteller, pointing the way ahead to new possibilities for picture books. His pictorial worlds constitute a separate universe where nothing is self-evident and anything is possible. Memories of…

It’s the longest day of the year and I, for one, love all the hours of warm daylight. Following up on Picturing Winter and Picturing Spring, I asked a bunch of artist friends to send me the paintings they thought best represented the season. It’s a great collection of images full of the contradictions of […]

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Shaun Tan's illustrations run the emotional gamut, from oddly whimsical to deeply introspective. Tan is best known for his graphic novel The Arrival and his Oscar-winning short film The Lost Thing.

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