• Romei, Stephen, 2018, 'A bug's life. Shaun Tan's children's picture books can be scary, but only if you let them', The Weekend Australian Review, June 23-24, p. 3.

On the shelves

• The Lost thing
  

Author's website

• Shaun Tan's website

Adaptations

Stage

• The Arrival Sydney Festival 2010 - Based on Shaun Tan's award-winning book by the same name, this wondrous wordless stage production questions why so many people leave behind everything they know to journey to an unknown land. The Arrival's highly physical cast combine music, movement, puppetry and shadow play to weave a story about overcoming hardship, about humanity and hope, and is a tribute to migrants and refugees throughout the world. [Preview on YouTube - 2:27]

Opera

• Badham, Van, 2015, 'The Rabbits review - triumphant adaptation of a deeply tragic story' The Guardian, 18 February
• McCallum, Peter, 2016, Sydney 2015 review: Kate Miller-Heidke The Rabbits a charming allegorical tale, 17 January

Oscars - The Lost Thing

• 'The Lost thing wins the Oscar® for best animated short film' 2011, Screen Australia: Media Release

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize - The Lost Thing

Hot on the heels of his win at the Oscars for The Lost Thing, it has been announced Shaun Tan has just won the most prestigious children's book award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize attracts the largest monetary award in the field of children's literature and the official site, when announcing the award noted:

'Shaun Tan is a masterly visual story teller, 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 childhood and adolescence are fixed reference points, but the pictorial narrative is universal and touches everyone, regardless of age.'

The book section of The Guardian Newspaper has more information about Shaun Tan and this prize. They also have an online gallery of Eric from Tales of Outer Suburbia Take the time to be delighted by this charming story which is so very typical of Shaun Tan's apparently simple story-telling which is always packed with delight, great-depth and meaning.

Interviews

General

• Kite, Lorian, 2016, 'How Shaun Tan transformed children's literature', The Financial Times, 19 August
• Shaun Tan in conversation with Neil Gaiman. The Guardian, 2 December 2011.
• Shaun Tan Interviewed by Oslo Davis - readings.com.au

Cicada

• Gartner, Annelies, 2018, 'Perth artist and writer Shaun Tan fulfils his creative bug', The West Australian, 20 August

General

• ABC Splash February 2012: Interview with Shaun Tan with Jane Hutchinson [10:23]

The Arrival

• Shaun Tan Interview; an insight into a sort of madness and nonsense HachetteAustralia
• The Hand of the Maker Revealed - Shaun Tan interview HachetteAustralia
• Why produce Sketches from a Nameless land? HachetteAustralia
• Shaun's Journey as an Illustrator - Shaun Tan Interview HachetteAustralia
• Migration & Multiculturalism in The Arrival HachetteAustralia
• The Arrival a Book That Anyone Can Read! HachetteAustralia

Tales from the Inner City

• 'Shaun Tan discusses Tales from the Inner City', Allen & Unwin'  [1:16]

Reviews

The Arrival

• Barsumian, Aram, 2009, 'The Arrival: a digital review' YouTube, 9 December.  Shaun Tan has described this review as "brilliant". Signed by a deaf reviewer Tan said for him it showed the parallels between the immigration experience and being disabled.
• Schiavone, Angie, 2006, 'The Arrival',Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November.
• Yang, Gene Leun, 2007, 'Stranger in a strange land', The New York Times, 11 November

Cicada

• Crocombe, Angela, 2018, 'Cicada by Shaun Tan', Readings,  25 June
• Nichols, Claire, 2018, 'Shaun Tan's Cicada', RN: The Hub on Books, 17 July. [Audio download: 14:23]
• 'Shaun Tan's Cicada: a meditation on belonging and bullying in pictures' 2018, The Guardian, 25 June.  This article includes the models Tan made of the characters and scenes that later appear as illustrations in this book.

Tales from the Inner City

• Crocombe, Angela, 2018, 'Tales from the inner city by Shaun Tan', Readings, 24 September 
• Karvelas, Patricia 2018, 'Tales from the Inner city by Shaun Tan', RN: The Drawing Room, 2 October [Audio download: 18:50]

Tales from Outer Suburbia

• Lo, Ping, 2008, 'Tales from Outer Suburbia', ABC Canberra, 23 June 
• Said, SF, 2009, ' Beyond the lawn: gorgeous artwork brings Shaun Tan's outlandish stories to life', The Guardian, 2 May
• Schiavone, Angie, 2008, 'Tales from Outer Suburbia', Sydney Morning Herald,  17 June.

The Singing bones

• Grimm fairy tales you can touch: The Singing bones by Shaun Tan - in pictures, 2016, The Guardian, 

Teachers' guides

Cicada

• Sheahen-Bright, Robyn, 2018, 'Cicada', Hachette, [PDF - 26 pages]

The Lost Thing

• Mortimer, Nancy, 2009, 'The Lost thing by Shaun Tan', Hachette Children's Books, [PDF - 8 pages]

Rules of summer

• Sheahan-Bright, Robyn, (2013?)  'Rules of summer', Lothian, [PDF - 11 pages]