"Shaun Tan's The Arrival arrives just in time to take advantage of the current waves of interest in the "graphic novel" and brings something new and exceptionally worthy to the form: a novel told in graphics (not cartoons), a wordless story that uses the language of silent cinema and the picture-story traditions that predate comic books. For adults, Tan's New World offers a childlike sense of discovery; for children it offers an adult theme made eminently accessible. Tan's lovingly laid out and masterfully rendered tale about the immigrant experience is a documentary magically told by the way of Surrealism" -Art Spiegelman