Tan, Shaun

Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.

Contains a series of sketches from book illustrator Shaun Tan.

Contains fifteen illustrated short stories, some humorous and some haunting, set in the Australian suburbs.

When Gavin takes his metal detector to a new playground to hunt for lost objects, he instead discovers a group of mysterious children who only appear after dark, and who tease him and try to persuade him to play with them until late into the night.

A boy must decide what to do with a lost thing he finds while hunting for bottle caps.

In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.