Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Tales from Outer Suburbia

Tan, S. (2009). Tales from outer suburbia . New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books.
Tales From Outer Suburbia is an unusual collection of short stories and illustrations set in an Australian suburb.  I found some of these stories to be cute and interesting, while I felt that some were slightly disturbing.  Some of them reminded me of the Far Side comic I used to read in the Sunday comics.  Every illustrated story is slightly off in some unusual way.  I am still not sure if I liked this book or not.  It was intriguing, and the illustrations were great, but I felt like the stories were just too short to capture my attention fully.  Some of the stories were no longer than a paragraph. 

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