Shaun Tan is back with The Singing Bones, an illustrated collection of some of the fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Tan, who has been making fantastic and whimsical art for a few years now, presents a series of sculptures that encapsulate these stories. They’re very minimalist, but also very evocative. As Neil Gaiman says in his introduction: “[His sculptures] are, in themselves, stories: not the frozen moments in time that a classical illustration needs to be.”
–A Good Book Cafe, Sumner, WA
Find this book– and so many more fantastic delights!– at A Good Book and other independent bookstores.
(While we’re thinking of it, you do know you can preorder Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, coming 2/7/17, from your favorite store, right?)