The Lost Thing

2000 picture book, written and illustrated by Shaun Tan

The Lost Thing is a picture book written and illustrated by Shaun Tan that was also adapted into an Academy Award-winning animated short film.

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Publisher	Lothian Books +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Cast

The Lost Thing cast
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- Tim Minchin
The Lost Thing crew
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Narrator: Nobody else seemed to notice it was there, they were all too busy doing other stuff, I guess.

Trivia

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The Boy has a sticker on his backpack saying "1974." Shaun Tan, the director and author of the book the film was based on, was born in 1974.

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