Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Shaun Tan, Dick Roughsey, Louisa Atkinson, Robert Ingpen, Roger Swainston, Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith, Pixie O'Harris, Deborah Niland, Ellis Rowan, Revel Cooper, Judy Horacek, Graeme Base, Gavin O'Keefe, Kilmeny Niland, Nathan Jurevicius, Will Dyson, Yaroslav Horak, Peter Ledger, R. A. Simpson, E. E. Gostelow, Peter Trusler, Roland Harvey, Anton Emdin, John C. J. Taylor, Celia Rosser, David Henry Souter, William Kermode, Margaret Thomas, Len Lawson, William Ellis Green, Frank P. Mahony, David G. Williams, Jane Tanner, Frank Knight, Dillon Naylor, Jenny Hale, Matt Coyle, Gregory Rogers, Deanne Cheuk, Ambrose Dyson, Edward Ambrose Dyson, Terry Denton, Phil Belbin, William T. Cooper, Richard McLean, ZAM-1, Charles Nuttall, Craig Phillips, Elizabeth Alger, Dane Lovett, Don Fish, Harold Frederick Neville Gye, Neville William Cayley, Thomas Watling, Neville Henry Cayley, Allan Stomann, Richard Browne, Lilian Marguerite Medland. Excerpt: Shaun Tan (born 1974) is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and The Arrival. He won an Award at the 83rd Academy Awards for Short Animated Film for The Lost Thing, which was adapted from the book of the same title. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1974 and, after freelancing for some years from a studio at Mount Lawley, relocated to Melbourne, Victoria in 2007. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the "Book of the Year" prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia "Picture Book of the Year" award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. Tan was the University of Melbourne's Department of Language Literacy and Arts Education Illustrator In Residence for two weeks through an annual Fellowship offered by the May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust. In 2010, Shaun Tan was the Artist Guest of Honour at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne, Australia. As a boy, Tan spent time illustrating poems and stories and drawing dinosaurs, robots and spaceships. At school he was known as a talented artist. At the age of eleven, he became a fan of The Twilight Zone television series as well as books that bore similar themes. Tan cites Ray Bradbury as a favorite at this time. These stories led to Tan writing his own short stories. Of his effort at writing as a youth, Tan tells, "I have a small pile of rejection letters as testament to this ambition!" Eventually he gained success with his illustrations. At the age of sixteen, Tan's first illustration appeared in the Australian magazine Aurealis in 1990. Tan almost studied to become a genetic scientist, and enjoyed chemistry, physics, history and English when in high school as well as art and claimed that he did not really know what he wanted to do, even at university. University studies were taking him alo