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Shaun Tan

Born

in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

January 01, 1974

Website

http://www.shauntan.net/

Genre

Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Children's Books

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Shaun Tan (born 1974) is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books. After freelancing for some years from a studio at Mt. Lawley, Tan relocated to Melbourne, Victoria, in 2007. Tan was the Illustrator in Residence at the University of Melbourne's Department of Language Literacy and Arts Education for two weeks through an annual Fellowship offered by the May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust. 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Artist. In 2011, he won his first Oscar in the category Best Short Animated Film for his work The Lost Thing. ...more

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NSW Premier's Reading Challenge 2026

I recently created artwork for the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge, which runs from late February to September this year. Below is the line artwork for the final illustration, which can be pulled from here, printed out and used for colouring in. Find out more about the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge here.

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Shaun Tan’s books

Average rating: 4.27 · 132,920 ratings · 16,237 reviews · 71 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Arrival 4.35 avg rating — 60,188 ratings — published 2007 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from Outer Suburbia 4.33 avg rating — 10,093 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost & Found by Shaun Tan, John Marsden (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 8,897 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Tree 4.50 avg rating — 6,698 ratings — published 2001 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cicada 4.26 avg rating — 6,182 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Thing 4.31 avg rating — 5,949 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rules of Summer 4.13 avg rating — 4,307 ratings — published 2013 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eric 4.39 avg rating — 3,057 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from the Inner City 4.30 avg rating — 2,923 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales by Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Jack Zipes (Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 2,289 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
― Shaun Tan

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“Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”
― Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

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“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing....”
― Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

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