Tales From Outer Suburbia

“When I was a kid, there was a big water buffalo living in the vacant lot at the end of our street, the one with the grass no one ever mowed.”

A book of improbable stories and enigmatic illustrations. In "Tales From Outer Suburbia", Shaun Tan builds a fantastic world ever provoking your imagination. He invites you to share non trivial stories, where you feel the narratives intertwined with the ethereal images, a fusion of experiences!

It is an unusual children's book. Most of this kind of book underestimates kids' intelligence and taste. Not this one.

Shaun Tan departed from a personal collection of informal drawings that he did in a side-page style. He combines several artistic techniques in the same book. His stories address deep human subjects in a fantasy style. Fantastic places, unexpected passages and strange creatures wait you in this (not only) children's book.