Author(s): Shaun Tan
No. of Pages: 32 pages
Date Published: 05 Aug 2010
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Paperback | 32 pages
Dimensions: 234 x 306 x 10mm | 294.83g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
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Illustrations: Four colour

A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling, threatening to overwhelm her. 'Sometimes you wake up with nothing to look forward to...' As she wanders around a world that is complex, puzzling and alienating, she is overtaken by a myriad of feelings. Just as it seems all hope is lost, the girl returns to her bedroom to find that a tiny red seedling has grown to fill the room with warm light. Astonishing Australian artist, Shaun Tan's latest creation, The Red Tree, is a book about feelings - feelings that can not always be simply expressed in words. It is a series of imaginary landscapes conjured up by the wizardry of his masterful and miraculous art. As a kind of fable, The Red Tree seeks to remind us that, though some bad feelings are inevitable, they are always tempered by hope.