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Shaun Tan Shaun Tan i(A41443 works by) (a.k.a. Tan)
Born: Established: ca. 1974 Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Malaysian Chinese
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1 Pidgin Shaun Tan , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 74 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Dog Shaun Tan , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2020 19846239 2020 single work children's fiction children's 'Once we were strangers,
legs bent the wrong way,
rough voices falling to the wind ...
But in our hearts we wanted more than this. In our hearts, we knew there was more.' (Publication summary)
 
1 y separately published work icon MoonFish MoonFish : Poems to Make You Think and Laugh Harry Laing , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Leigh Hobbs (illustrator), Judy Watson (illustrator), Anna Pignataro (illustrator), Abbotsford : Ford Street , 2019 15508423 2019 poetry picture book children's

'Children will love the humour and catchy rhymes of the twenty-nine poems featuring manic TVs, monsters and everything in between.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 [Human] [People] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 204-211)
1 [Yak] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 199-205)
1 [Bee] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 191-197)
1 [Pigeon] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 185-189)
1 [Fox] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 179-183)
1 [Eagle] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 173-177)
1 [Bear] [Bears with Lawyers.] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 165-171)
1 [Parrot] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 159-163)
1 [Orca] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 147-149)
1 [Lungfish] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 137-145)
1 [Sheep] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 125-127)
1 [Frog] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 119-123)
2 [Rhinoceros] i "The rhino was on the freeway again.", Shaun Tan , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 95-97)
— Appears in: This is Home : Essential Australian Poems for Children 2019; (p. 146-147)
1 [Moonfish] [Consider This : There's No Ocean in Our City.] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 81-93)
1 [Pig] [In the Room at the Back of Our Apartment] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 75-79)
1 [Horse] [You Are Two Years Old.] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 69-73)
1 [Shark] [The Monster of Our Nightmares] Shaun Tan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Tales from the Inner City 2018; (p. 55-59)
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