The Lost Thing
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
Port Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
2000
Z668356
2000
single work
picture book
children's
(taught in 11 units)
'A boy discovers a bizarre looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach. Realising it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but is met with indifference from everyone else, who barely notice its presence, each unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to their day to day lives. For reasons he does not explain, the boy empathises with the creature, and sets out to find a 'place' for it.'
Thursday's Child
Ringwood
New York (City)
:
Penguin
,
2000
Z540722
2000
single work
novel
young adult
(taught in 1 units)
The creature held a great bundle of something tied up in a rag. For a moment we stared, not recognising him, but who else could it have been, who else but wandering Tin. We saw his naked limbs, his waxy skin, his discoloured hair, his hooking razor-sharp nails. He raised lashy eyes to us and we saw a face on its way to another world. Da murmured, "Jesus." Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. (Source: Trove)
Painted Love Letters
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2002
Z951460
2002
single work
children's fiction
children's
(taught in 1 units)
Dave is dying. Chrissie, Mum, Nan and Badger are going to be left behind. (Source: Trove)
