![]() I don't expect the book to change anybody's opinion about things, but if it at least makes them pause to think, I'll feel as if I've succeeded in something. They just see them as a problem once they're here, without thinking about the bigger picture. Shaun Tan has said he wanted his book to build a kind of empathy in readers: "In Australia, people don't stop to imagine what it's like for some of these refugees. Tan differentiates The Arrival from children's picture books, explaining that there's more emphasis on continuity in texts with multiple frames and panels, and that a graphic novel text like his more closely resembles a film making process. ![]() Without the use of dialogue or text, Shaun Tan portrays the experience of a father emigrating to a new land. It features an immigrant's life in an imaginary world that sometimes vaguely resembles our own. ![]() ![]() The book is 128 pages long and divided into six chapters it is composed of small, medium, and large panels, and often features pages of full artwork. The Arrival is a wordless graphic novel written by Shaun Tan and published by Hodder Children's Books in 2006. Shaun Tan is the author and illustrator of the award-winning, bestselling graphic novel The Arrival, and also Tales from Outer Suburbia, a collection of illustrated short stories.Both books were named to the New York Times list of Best Illustrated Childrens Books. ![]()
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