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This picture book is a part fairy tale, part parable that tells of a man falling asleep in a park one day and finding himself the caretaker of a rare bird that has built a nest on his head. Ironical at times, it is a book for readers of all ages.
Notes
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For children aged 5 and over.
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This is affiliated with Dr Laurel Cohn's Picture Book Diet because it contains representations of food and/or food practices.
Food depiction - Incidental
Food types - Everyday foods
- Discretionary foods
- High sugar foods
Food practices - Eating out - meal
- Food selling
- Food preparation
- Food serving
Gender - Food preparation - male [professional]
- Food serving - male [waiter]
Signage - Shop sign
Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place - Urban
- Normalising the fantastical
Setting - Urban landscape
Food as social cohesion n/a Food as cultural identity - White Australian characters
Food as character identity n/a Food as language n/a
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Chinese.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille.
Works about this Work
- y Playing with Picturebooks : Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 Z1909588 2012 single work criticism "Postmodernism has played a significant part in the development of playful and experimental picturebooks for children over the past 50 years. Playing with Picturebooks offers fresh insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on picturebooks for children, covering a wide range of international picturebooks predominantly from the 1980s to the present. It represents a significant contribution to current debates centred on the decline of the effects of postmodernism on fiction and detects a shift from the postmodern to the postmodernesque. Playing with Picturebooks draws on a wide range of critical perspectives in examining postmodern approaches to narrative and illustration. Chapters discuss how metafictive devices enable different modes of representation, offer different perspectives to authorised version of history, and promote difference and ex-centricity over unity. Playing with Picturebooks is essential reading, not only for academics in the field of children's literature, but also for researchers, teachers and students." (Back cover)
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Men/Boys Behaving Differently: Contemporary Representations of Masculinity in Children's Literature
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: English In Australia , November no. 132 2001; (p. 57-64) 'Crisis' has been the password of recent writings about boys, masculinity and manhood from popular journalism to academic press. In all of these often disparate accounts there is the attempt on the part of the writers to find an anchorage in the storm, to utter a temporary 'truth' on the current state of affairs. In a similar way, the cause for the so-called 'crisis in masculinity' is just as diverse.With this brief outline of the discourse of 'crisis in masculinity' in mind, this paper will 2 consider what contemporary writing for young people can offer in terms of the current issues impacting on masculinity. In particular, specific questions will emerge as part of the discussion: How are writers for young people contributing to critiques of masculinity (and gender generally) through strategies of parody, self-reflexivity, and subversion? In reading these fictional accounts, does a more serious account of current anxieties lie beneath their playful surfaces? How might students benefit from an engagement with these and other texts in terms of their developing understandings of gender in general and masculine subjectivities in particular? -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2001
2001
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 45 no. 3 2001; (p. 2-12) -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 45 no. 1 2001; (p. 14)
— Review of The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book -
Picture Books Now Cross Age Divisions
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 August 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Fox 2000 single work picture book ; The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book ; The Lost Thing 2000 single work picture book
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Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 45 no. 1 2001; (p. 14)
— Review of The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book -
Pushing the Boundaries
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 226 2000; (p. 58-59)
— Review of Stanley Sticks Out 2000 single work picture book ; The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book ; Leaving 2000 single work picture book ; In My Father's Room 2000 single work picture book -
A Look at...
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 15 no. 5 2000; (p. 20)
— Review of The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book -
Top Reads for Kids
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 August 2001; (p. 6)
— Review of The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book ; A is for Aunty 2000 single work picture book ; Fox 2000 single work picture book ; Faust's Party 2000 single work picture book ; Rain Dance 2000 single work picture book ; The Lost Thing 2000 single work picture book -
Picture Books Now Cross Age Divisions
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 August 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Fox 2000 single work picture book ; The Singing Hat 2000 single work picture book ; The Lost Thing 2000 single work picture book -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2001
2001
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 45 no. 3 2001; (p. 2-12) -
Men/Boys Behaving Differently: Contemporary Representations of Masculinity in Children's Literature
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: English In Australia , November no. 132 2001; (p. 57-64) 'Crisis' has been the password of recent writings about boys, masculinity and manhood from popular journalism to academic press. In all of these often disparate accounts there is the attempt on the part of the writers to find an anchorage in the storm, to utter a temporary 'truth' on the current state of affairs. In a similar way, the cause for the so-called 'crisis in masculinity' is just as diverse.With this brief outline of the discourse of 'crisis in masculinity' in mind, this paper will 2 consider what contemporary writing for young people can offer in terms of the current issues impacting on masculinity. In particular, specific questions will emerge as part of the discussion: How are writers for young people contributing to critiques of masculinity (and gender generally) through strategies of parody, self-reflexivity, and subversion? In reading these fictional accounts, does a more serious account of current anxieties lie beneath their playful surfaces? How might students benefit from an engagement with these and other texts in terms of their developing understandings of gender in general and masculine subjectivities in particular? - y Playing with Picturebooks : Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 Z1909588 2012 single work criticism "Postmodernism has played a significant part in the development of playful and experimental picturebooks for children over the past 50 years. Playing with Picturebooks offers fresh insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on picturebooks for children, covering a wide range of international picturebooks predominantly from the 1980s to the present. It represents a significant contribution to current debates centred on the decline of the effects of postmodernism on fiction and detects a shift from the postmodern to the postmodernesque. Playing with Picturebooks draws on a wide range of critical perspectives in examining postmodern approaches to narrative and illustration. Chapters discuss how metafictive devices enable different modes of representation, offer different perspectives to authorised version of history, and promote difference and ex-centricity over unity. Playing with Picturebooks is essential reading, not only for academics in the field of children's literature, but also for researchers, teachers and students." (Back cover)
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Every Picture Tells a Story
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 December 2000; (p. 10)
Awards
- 2001 joint winner The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature — Picture Book
- 2001 joint honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
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