Lost Thing

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The Lost Thingis a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it, or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice its presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers, friends, parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. In spite of his better judgement, the boy feels sorry for this hapless creature and attempts to find out where it belongs.

The point about The Lost Thing is that it’s uncategorisable – which goes for this new stage work as much as the creature at the centre of its story. It’s an opera, or a musical, or a dance work harnessing the talents of the disabled and non-disabled dancers of Candoco and a small ensemble of similarly various musicians, in tandem with the Royal Opera. The source is Shaun Tan’s picture book about a boy who finds and looks after a strange creature – a timely choice for a family show, given that it is on some primary schools’ curriculum. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." [4] This interview presents Tan’s detailed responses to questions about the way he thinks about his work and creativity. Great for comprehension activities.E’ curioso che ho letto il libro in modo abbastanza rapido, curandomi soprattutto della storia senza dare troppa importanza ai dettagli. E alla fine sono sbottato in un: “ e allora?” Focus on the different angles and perspectives used to represent the boy’s world. Describe three of these perspectives in detail and explain what they add to the story. Choose three words to describe the narrator and share them with your group. As a group decide on the three best words – you need to be able to explain why you have chosen them.

Such a discussion could be based in small groups that role-play a production meeting where the change is debated. Hugo Award Nomination list". Denvention. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008 . Retrieved 29 March 2008.

Tan, Shaun (3 November 2020). Dog. Crows Nest, NSW. ISBN 978-1-76052-613-9. OCLC 1191088993. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Tan almost studied to become a geneticist, and enjoyed chemistry, physics, history and English while in high school as well as art and claimed that he did not really know what he wanted to do. [7] During his university studies, Tan decided to move from academic studies to working as an artist. [8] What will become evident from the retrieval chart exercise is that a range of textual elements combine to develop a theme, so that there is a cohesiveness among the elements that can support certain readings more successfully than others. Ecco; il libro ci spinge a cercare di evitare di fare proprio questo. Correre per arrivare a una fine per poi chiedersi “ e allora?” Provide students with copies of the document, The Lost Thing: making meaning with other art (PDF, 165KB). Teachers should model the first exercise of Part 1 where students are asked to identify a difference between Tan’s work and the original, and the effect this change has on suggesting an idea or developing a theme.

The creature exists in contrast to the world it inhabits, being whimsical, purposeless, out-of-scale and apparently meaningless - all things that the bureaucracy cannot comprehend, and so it is not worthy of any attention. Being a curiosity is only effective if the populace is curious, and they aren’t, being always “too busy” doing more important things. Year 7: (ACELT1620) (ACELT1622) (ACELT1625) (ACELT1805) (ACELY1725) (ACELY1726) (ACELY1728) (EN4-2A) (EN4-1A) (EN4-6C) (EN4-4B) The Lost Thing has also been adapted as a play by the Jigsaw Theatre Company, [27] a youth theatre company in Canberra. This was the main event for the National Gallery of Australia's Children Festival ( Canberra) and at the Chookahs! Kids Festival ( Melbourne) in 2006.Talk about other images that were created in the minds-eye when you read the story aloud. What do they imagine the narrator of the story looks like? Literature circle Create a labelled diagram of the Lost Thing. What different parts / features does it have? What materials might they be made from?

As an artist, I'm interested in what you do when you encounter something that's really, really strange and unfamiliar," he tells NPR, "whether it's with fear or evasion or curiosity and maybe even love is really quite telling." I wrote the story over a couple of weeks on my kitchen table - the original draft was much longer and more detailed, and was set in an ordinary suburb much like the one I grew up in. Later that changed as I developed the idea that the it was a kind of ‘retro-future’ suburb where there were almost no living things left, aside from people, and that everything was very dull and suffocating, but nobody cared very much about this.

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Shaun Tan is an incredible artist whose pictures are able to capture nostalgia, and the bittersweet sadness that exists in the contemporary world. Rather than superficial princesses and shallow fairy tales, Tan asks us to also reflect upon aspects of life through original illustrations that are humorous, sentimental, poignant and satirical. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. [1] The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. [2] and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. [3]