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The Viewer by Gary Crew and Shaun Tan (view source)
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''The musty odour of entombed air escaped from the dark space inside.''
Yes, if you want to prove a title isn't your average picture book, just quote from it. After all, it would be heinous to try and cut and paste Shaun Tan's ever-so-detailed designs. You can also quote the cataloguing details at the beginning - ""''End of the world - juvenile fiction""''. But it's debatable whether that's an accurate definition of the events here.
The story concerns a young lad who loves scavenging and exploring. Finding a Hellraiser-styled box of tricks contains a Viewmaster-type machine, he puts it to his eyes and sees something a lot more serious than, say, a Thunderbirds episode in thirty 3D images, which was all I ever saw in mine. Instead, Tristan sees nothing but death and destruction, and a compelling sense of - well, something.