Tales from Outer Suburbia
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2008
Z1450931
2008
selected work
single work
short story
art work
young adult
(taught in 13 units)
'do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?
or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?
do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?
Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, reveals the quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets, dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, tiny exchange students and secret rooms filled with darkness and delight.'
Source: Back cover.
The Rabbits
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
Port Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
1998
Z139449
1998
single work
picture book
children's
(taught in 11 units)
"The rabbits came many grandparents ago.
They build houses, made roads, had children.
They cut down trees.
A whole continent of rabbits..." (back cover)
An allegorical story using rabbits, an introduced species, to represent the arrival of Europeans in Australia and the subsequent widespread environmental destruction.
Subject Objectives:
1. Understand the historical and cultural contexts which produce changing understandings of what kinds of texts are appropriate for Australian child and young adolescent readers. 2. Understand critical debates particular to the study of literature for children and young adult readers. 3. Understand and present an analysis of the rhetorical strategies by which writers for children and young adults position themselves in relation to wider cultural debates.
