The Rabbits - Softcover

A hauntingly beautiful picture book from the acclaimed Shaun Tan.

The rabbits came many grandparents ago.
They built houses, made roads, had children.
They cut down trees.
A whole continent of rabbits...

The Rabbits is a thought-provoking allegorical fable about colonisation and the effect of man on the environment.

Told from the perspective of the colonised, an unseen narrator describes the coming of the 'rabbits'. An encounter that is at first friendly and curious, but later darkens... Sparse, strange and stunningly beautiful, The Rabbits is a truly unique picture book.

Shaun Tan is the author and illustrator of The Lost Thing and The Red
Tree, both of which have won international awards such as the Honourable
Mention in the BolognaRagazzi Prices, were CBCA Honour Books and have
been widely translated. Previous books Shaun has illustrated include The Rabbits by John Marsden (CBCA Picture Book of the Year) and with Gary Crew, Memorial (A CBCA Honour Book) and The Viewer (winner of the Crichton Award for
illustration). In 2001 Shaun received the 'World Fantasy Best Artist
Award' for his body of work. Shaun is the winner of the 2011 Astrid Lindgren prize, the world's richest children's literature award. The award described Shaun as 'a masterly visually storyteller'.