This article highlights the use of Shaun Tan's The Arrival to teach literacy to English Language Learners in social studies classrooms. The featured text is a book that displays the complexity of ...

Strange, melancholy imagery and pessimistic forecasts ("sometimes the day begins/ with nothing to look forward to") weigh like millstones on this slender book, but the appearance of a stunning "red ...

Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘The Arrival’Today on the Comics Page, we’re proud to present an excerpt from The Arrival, a beautiful and strange graphic novel by Shaun Tan, out next week from Scholastic.

Artist and author Shaun Tan creates semi-mechanical and animalesque beings that seem born of both the natural world and industrious humans. Whimsical, cerebral, socially aware, grotesque and cuddly, ...