The Arrival
Shaun Tan
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.