she lifts her head and smiles up at a glorious flame-red tree, in the shape of a dandelion puff ("just as you imagined it would be"). Although the glum phrases are clichés of depression, Tan's ...

This school holidays local children’s theatre company Barking Gecko are presenting their adaptation of Perth-born Oscar winner Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree. Not only did Tan win the Oscar for best ...

Meet Shaun Tan - author of award winning ... to capture the everyday in extraordinary ways, Tan's children's picture book The Red Tree appealed to kids and parents alike and inspired a lyrical ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Australian artist, writer and ...

Shaun Tan’s books, as he has declared on his website ... almost oxygen-less world” were, Tan says, his touchstones. The Red Tree (2001), dedicated to the artist’s wife, fairly batters a reader with ...

Australian author and illustrator Shaun ... Tan, who was born in 1974 in Perth, Australia, lives and works as an artist and author in Melbourne. His books include "The Rabbits," "The Red Tree ...