The feel is silent movies, De Sica's (1948) The Bicycle Thief and photographs of immigrants on display at Ellis Island. Here I borrow from Agne's background on how Tan wrote it: It's not a graphic novel, technically, I guess, since it is a picture book, but it is an all-ages book (not just for kids), so I highly recommend it.Ħ/19/18: Reading for summer YA GN and Comics class, wordless, a masterpiece everyone should own. the transfer Western superhero action style) we learn about a family's scary/exciting immigration excursion. In this book, more Eastern than Western in many ways because of its reflective style (vs.

شربیانیĦ/17/21: I have used this book for many years as an example of silent or wordless storytelling for my comics and graphic novels classes, in conjunction with (most often) Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, to look at how the story is constructed entirely from images, then to take a close at how these images/panels speak to each other, and hat effects they engender. The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time.Ī man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast.

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