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1 20 y separately published work icon Memorial Gary Crew , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Vancouver : Simply Read Books , 2004 Z15025 1999 single work picture book children's (taught in 4 units) 'A story to help us all remember ... When soldiers return from the First World War in 1918, a memorial tree is planted ... 'Lest we forget'. But generations later, what do those who pause in the shadows of the tree's immense branches remember?'
(Source: Back cover)
7 35 y separately published work icon The Rabbits John Marsden , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Vancouver : Simply Read Books , 2003 Z139449 1998 single work picture book children's (taught in 11 units)

"The rabbits came many grandparents ago.

They build houses, made roads, had children.

They cut down trees.

A whole continent of rabbits..." (back cover)

An allegorical story using rabbits, an introduced species, to represent the arrival of Europeans in Australia and the subsequent widespread environmental destruction.
1 18 y separately published work icon In Flanders Fields Norman Jorgensen , Brian Harrison-Lever (illustrator), Vancouver : Simply Read Books , 2003 Z955057 2002 single work picture book children's

'Early on Christmas morning the guns stop firing. A deathly silence creeps over the pitted and ruined landscape. A young soldier peers through a periscope over the top of the trench. Way out in no-man's-land, he sees a small red shape moving on the barbed wire. A brightly coloured robin is trapped. One wing is flapping helplessly.

'An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier, who risks his life to cross the no-man's land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces, dug into their trenches. This moving picture book is a plea for compassion.'

Source: Penguin Books.
4 7 y separately published work icon The Viewer Gary Crew , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Vancouver : Simply Read Books , 2003 Z845140 1997 single work picture book children's 'The Viewer tells the peculiar story of a boy whose obsession with curious artefacts leads him to discover a strange box at a dump site. It proves to be an ancient chest full of optical devices, one of which captures his interest; an intricately mechanical object which carries disks of images; scenes of destruction, violence and the collapse of civilisations throughout time. The boy is afraid, but also cannot help but look into the machine time and time again as the images shift and change...' (Source: Shaun Tan's website)
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