The release of a new Shaun Tan project is always a reason to rejoice. An award-winning Australian artist/author/filmmaker, Tan excels at “…creating very simple, complex little worlds that everyone can enjoy and easily revisit at different times in their life,” according to The Book That Made Me: A Collection of 32 Personal Stories.

In his latest tome, The Singing Bones, the critically acclaimed creator of The Arrival and Tales from Outer Suburbia tackles works collected by the Brothers Grimm. Accompanying passages from 75 familiar fairy tales are Tan’s amazing, surreal sculptural works. As he explains in The Singing Bones afterword, “What matters above all else are the hard bones of the story, and I wanted many of these objects to appear as if they’ve emerged from an imaginary archeological dig…” 

Concurrently, Tan’s work is also included in the recently-released The Book That Made Me, along with the works of a bevy of other award-winning authors, including Markus Zusak of The Book Thief fame. “What if you could look inside your favorite authors and see the book that inspired them to become who they are today?” With The Book That Made Me, you can do just that.

Visit the imagination of Tan and his complex little worlds via BCLS, as we have a number of works by this gifted artist/author/filmmaker available: