Sign up. Now populate the city. BELONGING Or sit children in small groups, each with a copy of the book, and take your time to explore the spreads. six. What about the wider community? Apparently, immigrants have the choice to reunite with their families either by returning to their native land or by bringing their family with them to live in their “new” land. Are the characters talking to each other? The beauty and power of the story told lies in the universal range of experiences it draws upon so effortlessly: the unsettling pain of departing from the familiar, the bewildering nature of the unknown, be it an unfamiliar street, land, or people, and finally, the tentative steps with which we gradually claim a new place (and life) as our own. This wordless picture book invites readers to explore a strange new world in the company of a migrant who must leave his family and everything he’s ever known to make the long and difficult journey to another land. Shaun Tan The Arrival Two Week Reading Unit. He struggles to find employment and a place to stay, and has problems trying to understand his new, HSC  historical Start a Jam and invite your friends and classmates to join! An excellent picture book that is very engaging and thought-provoking. Find GCSE resources for every subject. The Arrival also presents stark contrasts between the immigrant’s native land and the new society he lives in. The Arrival - Shaun Tan Where the text came from The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images, it was illustrated by Shaun Tan in 2006.  their An excellent picture book that is very engaging and thought-provoking. a fictional story presented in comic-strip format and presented as a book.  STUDY Furthermore, this, said that although we have made our own choices, our companions steer us to either achieve or hinder such goals from happening. Shaun Tan The Arrival Two Week Reading Unit. London: Hodder Children’s Books, 2007. I'm always interested in striking the right balance between everyday objects, animals and people, and their much more, In the case of "The Arrival," I drew heavily on my own memories of travelling to foreign countries, that feeling of having basic but imprecise notions of things around me, an awareness of environments, beyond or deviating from the usual or expected, in the nature of something though not readily apparent, A lot of my 'inspirational images' blu-tacked to the walls of my studio were old photographs of immigrant processing at Ellis Island, visual notes that provided, so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe, the act of forming again; renewing and reconstituting, A scene of immigrants travelling in a cloud of white balloons was inspired by pictures of migrants boarding trains as well as the night-time spawning of coral polyps, two ideas associated by common underlying themes--dispersal and, the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites, I realized that these could be read a number of ways: literally, as an, a relationship of mutual understanding between people, I'm more attracted to a kind of intuitive, giving or marked by complete attention to, One key character in my story is a creature that looks something like a walking tadpole, as big as a cat and, a vague idea in which some confidence is placed, an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious, I am often searching in each image for things that are odd enough to invite a high degree of personal, characterized by careful evaluation and judgment, The experience of many immigrants actually draws an interesting parallel with the creative and, There is a similar kind of search for meaning, sense and identity in an environment that can be alternately transparent and, Created on March 7, 2015