A stunning new picture book for anyone who has ever felt unappreciated from Academy Award
winner Shaun Tan. Cicada work in tall building. Data entry clerk. Seventeen year. No sick day.
No mistake. Tok Tok Tok! Cicada works in an office dutifully working day after day for
unappreciative bosses and being bullied by his co-workers. But one day something truly
extraordinary happens . . . A story for anyone who has ever felt unappreciated overlooked or
overworked but dreams of magic from Australia's most acclaimed picture book creator. This is
Shaun Tan's first author-illustrator book in five years and his most important and moving
fable since The Arrival.
