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y separately published work icon Piccaninny Walkabout : A Story of Two Aboriginal Children single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1957... 1957 Piccaninny Walkabout : A Story of Two Aboriginal Children
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A photographic story describing how two Arnhem Land Aboriginal children coped when they wandered away from their grandmother and found themselves lost in the bush.

Notes

  • Illustrated with photographs by the author.
  • A translation of an Aboriginal tale by Raiwalla as told to Beulah Lowe.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1957 .
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      Extent: 47p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1958 , 1964 , 1968 , 1961 , 1963 , 1959 , 1965
      Note/s:
      • With introduction by Axel Poignant explaining the origins of the story.
Alternative title: Bush Walkabout
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1972 .
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      Extent: [69] p.p.
      Edition info: New ed.
      Description: illus., maps.
      ISBN: 0207954550
    • Reading, Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Addison-Wesley ,
      1974 .
      Extent: [64] p.p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0201058545

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Works about this Work

Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century Erica Hateley , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature 2016; (p. 205-221)

'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'

Untitled Eve Pownall , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 48 1973; (p. 46)

— Review of Piccaninny Walkabout : A Story of Two Aboriginal Children Axel Poignant , 1957 single work picture book
Untitled Eve Pownall , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 48 1973; (p. 46)

— Review of Piccaninny Walkabout : A Story of Two Aboriginal Children Axel Poignant , 1957 single work picture book
Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century Erica Hateley , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature 2016; (p. 205-221)

'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'

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