The Arrival

The Arrival is a 128-page book of illustrations that has no words. Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of a migrant leaving his home country, crossing an ocean to a strange new city, and learning how to live here. From the nature of the illustrations the book could be set around the late 1800s or early 1900s.

The way that Shaun Tan has produced this book is one that would stimulate student imagination. Using this in a lesson and having the students come up with their own story to carry with the illustrations would produce some quite interesting stories given the imagination that some students have.