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Reviews 2009

January 9, 2009 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

Tales from Outer Suburbia By Shaun Tan Arthur A. Levine (an imprint of Scholastic Books) $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-05587-1 Ages 9 and up February 1, 2009 On the face of it, I’m an inadequate reviewer for Shaun Tan. When you review a book for kids, what do you do? You take that little book, you pick […]

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