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Author Tan, Shaun, author

Title The lost thing / Shaun Tan
Published Port Melbourne : Lothian, 2000
©2000

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 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 MELB SPCBC  819 Tan Sha/Lth  LIB USE ONLY
 W'BOOL  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tan/Lth  AVAILABLE

Description 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 32 cm
Summary A kid finds a lost thing on the beach when he's scavenging for his bottle top collection. The thing is a large, freakish creature that looks like a cross between a crab and a pot-bellied stove. Shaun Tan's unparalleled artwork accompanies the humorous What I Did on My Holidays narrative
Analysis Australian
Notes "Illustration media: acrylic, oils, Dad's old physics and engineering textbooks, some bottletops & glue"
Cover title
Audience For primary school age
Notes convenors' award, Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian speculative fiction, 2000 (joint award); Honour Book, CBCA Book of the Year Award, Picture book, 2001
Subject Australian fiction.
Children's stories.
Curiosities and wonders -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature.
Curiosities and wonders -- Juvenile literature.
Dignity -- Juvenile fiction.
Fantasy -- Juvenile fiction.
Fantasy -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction.
Imagination -- Juvenile fiction.
Imagination -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction.
Kindness -- Juvenile fiction.
Lost articles -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction.
Lost articles -- Juvenile fiction.
Mystery -- Juvenile fiction.
Mystery -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children -- Australia.
Toleration -- Juvenile fiction.
Fantasy.
Humorous stories.
Lost and found possessions -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Fiction.
Illustrated works.
LC no. 2001431088
ISBN 0734400748
0734403887 (paperback)
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