Rules of Summer
On sale
1st June 2017
Price: £10.99
CILIP Kate Greenaway Children's Book Award, 2015
A beautiful paperback edition of the future classic by Kate Greenaway Medal, Academy Award and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner – Shaun Tan combines humour and surreal fantasy to picture a summer in the lives of two boys.
Never break the rules. Especially if you don’t understand them. The boys hide from a giant red rabbit and outwit a crowd of scary eagles, but when their games become ever darker and sinister they learn that breaking the rules can be dangerous.
‘Visually fascinating.’ – The New York Times
‘Thrilling, disturbing and hard to shake…one startling image after another.’ – Wall Street Journal
Other titles by Shaun Tan include: The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer Suburbia and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival.
Read more about Shaun Tan at http://www.shauntan.net/
Never break the rules. Especially if you don’t understand them. The boys hide from a giant red rabbit and outwit a crowd of scary eagles, but when their games become ever darker and sinister they learn that breaking the rules can be dangerous.
‘Visually fascinating.’ – The New York Times
‘Thrilling, disturbing and hard to shake…one startling image after another.’ – Wall Street Journal
Other titles by Shaun Tan include: The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales from Outer Suburbia and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival.
Read more about Shaun Tan at http://www.shauntan.net/
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Reviews
Shaun Tan is a truly innovative and original picture book creator and this book does not disappoint . This book can be explored on different levels throughout KS2 and would prompt detailed discussion about the paintings, themes of isolation and alienation and consideration of which rules in life makes sense to the children. A treasure trove.