Over at my LibraryThing reviews account I just posted my review of Shaun Tan’s beautiful story-in-pictures The Arrival. I can’t recommend it highly enough. You can see some images on the artist’s website (I’ve linked a few from the review also).

After posting the review I started wandering through other people’s reviews (the perils and joys of LT…). Kate Nepveu has a good one, covering a couple of things I wanted to get to but didn’t find space for: the pervasive kindness, and her anxiety (which I shared) that something bad was going to happen (the closeup of flames in the eyeball of the man who tells the story of the giants gave me all the wrong kinds of associations).

(Special thanks to Olga for discovering the book, and for letting me read her copy before she’d even had time to herself.)