The Arrival

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Call Number: Teen Graphic Novel / Tan, Shaun, Teen Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / General / Tan, Shaun
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Graphic Novel / Tan, Shaun	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Graphic Novel / Tan, Shaun	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Graphic Novel / Tan, Shaun	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Graphic Novel / Tan, Shaun	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024
Pittsfield Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / General / Tan, Shaun	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / General / Tan, Shaun	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.

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stunning! submitted by camelsamba on July 8, 2011, 10:13pm This book - graphic novel, picture story, whatever you want to call it! - is amazing. Stunning. Moving. I especially liked the visual contrast between what seemed like a by-gone culture (the Ellis Island style arrival hall, the clothing) with the futuristic technology (such as the flying ships). I also liked how you learned the histories of the people he meets along the way.

A gorgeous art-only immigration story. submitted by eknapp on November 12, 2013, 8:22pm SPOILER: [A man leaves his wife and young daughter to sail off to a faraway land where he doesn't speak the language. He makes some friends, saves some money, and brings his family over for a joyful reunion.]

The Arrival is completely text-free and absolutely beautiful, entirely drawn in sepia-toned, I don't know, pencil sketches maybe. It's a bizarre blend of styles: the people all look 19th century Ellis Island; everybody has a familiar or pet inspired by Maurice Sendak (my wife says "Pokemon"), like the miniature whale-dog and the fish-bird; and the musical instruments and modes of transportation are right out of Dr. Seuss and Dr. Who respectively (I'm sure I saw a poggle horn, a zimbaphone, and possibly a three-nozzled bloozer). The writing on signs and immigration documents looks suspiciously like a supersecret transliteration code I devised when I was 7.

I like Tan's inventive text-free ways of communicating concepts like danger and the passage of time. The homeland that the unnamed man leaves behind is dark, with shadows of dragontails on all the city streets--in his new home he's startled once by a small apparently-harmless cat-thing with a similar tail. He shows time passing on his initial voyage with a sixty-panel (I counted) montage of clouds, and later with a 24-panel array of a transforming leaf-eye-dandelion. Neat.

SO confusing! submitted by zoe.dvh on July 10, 2015, 1:10pm This book was very confusing and hard to understand. But I do like words a lot, so that might be why. The art is gorgeous though. i recommend you try it, though. See if you can understand it.