Lost Thing

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I guess you want to know what this book is about, just by reading this cover flap. Fair enough too; time is short, lives are busy, and most smart, thinking people have better things to do than stand around looking at picture books about some big red thing being lost in a strange city… marketing copy In questo peregrinare notiamo tante cose strane che riusciremmo a vedere tranquillamente se solo non fossimo sempre così impegnati a pensare ai fatti nostri. This resource contains ideas for using discussion, art and writing to respond to this beautiful book.

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The following image is Tan’s re-imagining of a famous Australian painting by artist Jeffrey Smart. “ The Cahill Expressway” painting was influential in 1960s Australia. Forty years later Shaun Tan has used a pastiche of this picture to convey a sense of bleakness. The anagnorisis is symbolised with a literal door open, and a big red button. The boy learns that there is a whole other world full of non-conforming things right behind the boring veneer of society. NEW SITUATION 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?”

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This incredible book was made into an academy award winning short film. The Australian artist and illustrator, Shaun Tan, is the Midas of the visual world. His innovative illustrations speak volumes. Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) You must never illustrate exactly what is written. You must find a space in the text so that pictures can do the work. Then you must let the words take over where the words do it best. It’s a funny kind of juggling act, which takes a lot of technique and experience to keep the rhythm going … You have worked out a text so supple that it stops and goes, stops and goes, with pictures interspersed. The pictures too, become so supple that there’s an interchangeability between them and the words; they each tell two stories at the same time. Rabbits invade a peaceful land and the inhabitants become wary and frightened as their lives are gradually taken over.GARY CREW is Australia’s most awarded author for children and young adults having won the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year four times – twice for his young adult novels and twice for his illustrated books. I loved this book. The illustrations are a weird combination of dark/depressing and funny/ironic. It is a dark, mechanical world. Very dystopian, but the characters do normal and very dorky things that make it funny. The text by itself would seem ordinary, which is part of the magic of this book, because it fools the reader into thinking they will see something familiar in the illustration. Of course there is nothing boring or cliche about the illustrations. In fact, it is completely unpredictable: the story, the illustrations, and well...the ending. Ecco; il libro ci spinge a cercare di evitare di fare proprio questo. Correre per arrivare a una fine per poi chiedersi “ e allora?” The parents are a boring middle-aged couple who are depicted staring at the TV. The message here is that when we become absorbed in media we stop noticing things going on around us, even though they’re really obvious. And the red thing is, ironically, really obvious. It’s huge. It’s red. When you (the reader) look at that thing you can’t help but wonder what it’s for and what it does. The world of Shaun Tan’s “The Lost Thing” reminds me of this painting: Dowlais Steel Works, 1952 by Peter Coker (1926-2004) SETTING OF THE LOST THING Crew, G. Strange Objects: 25 Anniversary Edition with a foreword by Shaun Tan. Lothian Melbourne. 2015

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In combining and interpreting all of these messages, whether in print text or visual image or allusion, the creative reader forms an individual sense of the meaning(s) of The Lost Thing.Read the text to students – just READ! Let them know that there will be no discussion until the end of the text to ensure there are no interruptions for others. Use comprehension strategies analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703) The cover of The Lost Thing reveals an image of the thing and its gormless minder standing lost and alone at the entry to a typical soulless inner-city underpass. An immediate visual allusion to Jeffrey Smart’s famous painting Cahill Expressway (1962), it depicts a similarly dislocated male in a business suit standing in much the same dislocated position. Tan’s message in alluding to the painting is immediate and undeniable: city dwellers are lost, immersed in an anonymous and careless landscape of monumental concrete, towering over and reducing them. Tan drives his cover message home with an easily missed line in fine print beneath the title: ‘A tale for those who have more important things to pay attention to’. The narrator’s compassion for the lost thing denies this in the telling, although he does admit, when the thing is safely home at the end, ‘Maybe there aren’t many lost things anymore. Or maybe I’ve just stopped noticing. Too busy doing other stuff I guess.’ He goes home to what the reader is led to believe is the more urgent business of classifying his ‘bottle-top collection’. This is a highly original picture book for older readers with stunning illustrations, evocative of well-known surrealist and abstract paintings. Read the text to students and have discussions throughout on possible words the students may misunderstand.