Product details:
Hardcover: 96 pages
Year: 2009
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Language: English
Product description:
Tales from Outer Suburbia is an anthology of fifteen very short illustrated stories. Each one is about a strange situation or event that occurs in an otherwise familiar suburban world; a visit from a nut-sized foreign exchange student, a sea creature on someone's front lawn, a new room discovered in a family home, a sinister machine installed in a park, a wise buffalo that lives in a vacant lot. The real subject of each story is how ordinary people react to these incidents, and how their significance is discovered, ignored or simply misunderstood.
Awards:
*Winner, 2010 Adelaide Festival awards for literature, Premier's award
*Winner, 2010 Adelaide Festival awards for literature, Children's literature award
*Winner, 2009 World Fantasy Award, Best Artist
*Winner, 2009 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Best Picture Book (Germany's most prestigious awards for children's and young adult books.)
*Winner, 2009 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year - Older Readers
*Winner, 2009 Ditmar Awards for Best Artwork
*Winner, 2009 ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year
*Winner, 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel
*Shortlisted, 2008 Indie Awards - Children's Book category
*Shortlisted, 2008 Golden Inky Award
*Shortlisted, 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
*Shortlisted, 2008 Western Australia Premier's Literary Award (Young Adult)
