The Arrival by Shaun Tan
This is an amazing book-picture book. The detail of the illustrations make you feel that you are looking at a photograph and not a pencil sketch. The book is about a man that leaves his family to find a better life for them. He is an immigrant that is looking for better work to support his family. With language being different as well as customs he gets overwhelmed by it all. This is exactly what happens to many of the immigrants that we see now; they don’t know the language and are struggling to make a better life for themselves and their families. The book has no text and you need to decide how to interpret the drawings on the pages, but you actually feel like if you are the man trying to understand the world he has stepped into. This book actually reminds me of my brother that went to study abroad in Amsterdam. He did not know how to speak Dutch and had to learn day by day how to get around and had no family near him. He struggled at the beginning and felt utterly alone just like the book.
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