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Synopsis
Young Tristan, a curious boy who rescues all sorts of objects from the rubbish dump, finds an old Viewmaster in its elaborate box, complete with a set of disks. He finds that these represent the ages of humankind, seen as a cyclical structure in which pattersns of growth and decay are repeated. Tristan becomes more and more drawn in to the world of the disks, and eventually disappears. The book is full of metaphors and symbols of seeing and watching, circularity and never-endingness, in a complex, fantastical tale, which was Shaun Tan's first picture book.
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About the Author
Gary Crew has an outstanding reputation as a writer of Young Adult fiction and innovative picture books. His numerous prizes and awards include CBC Book of the Year.
Shaun Tan has an outstanding reputation for his illustrative work. He won the Crichton Award for Book Illustration for his first book, The Viewer, in 1995. The Rabbits by John Marsden was named CBCA Picture Book of the Year in 1999. The Red Tree was a CBCA Honour Book in 2002.
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