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Where Love Is...
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 219 2000; (p. 58-59)
— Review of Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book ; Fox 2000 single work picture book ; The Adventures of Charlotte and Henry 1987 single work picture book -
Separation Anxiety in Three of Gillian Rubinstein's Collaborative Picture Story Books
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 7 no. 3 1997; (p. 5-9)Mills examines three of Rubinstein's children's books, Keep Me Company (1992), Jake and Pete (1995), and Jake and Pete and the Stray Dogs (1997), in the light of psychiatrist John Bowlby's writing on Attachment Theory and Separation Anxiety, arguing that despite offering a helpful context for reading the texts, 'aspects of the picture story books[s] remain outside his theoretical framework (7). Bowlby is notably silent regarding Freud's Oedipus complex, nor does he 'theorize the body' in any detail and Mills looks at the texts in relation to the gaps between the the two approaches (7). She extends the reading beyond the Bowlbian paradigm for mother-child separation anxiety revealing a much darker message regarding anxiety, loss and death, in the texts, stating that, 'In so far as the books explore a child's separation anxiety by way of animals' troubles, the happy endings are a fragile fiction' (9).
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 8 no. 1 1993; (p. 25)
— Review of Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 36 no. 4 1992; (p. 17)
— Review of Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book -
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 143 1992; (p. 67-69)
— Review of A Little Bush Maid 1905 single work children's fiction ; Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book ; Queen Becky 1992 single work picture book
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Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 36 no. 4 1992; (p. 17)
— Review of Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 8 no. 1 1993; (p. 25)
— Review of Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book -
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 143 1992; (p. 67-69)
— Review of A Little Bush Maid 1905 single work children's fiction ; Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book ; Queen Becky 1992 single work picture book -
Where Love Is...
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 219 2000; (p. 58-59)
— Review of Keep Me Company 1992 single work picture book ; Fox 2000 single work picture book ; The Adventures of Charlotte and Henry 1987 single work picture book -
Separation Anxiety in Three of Gillian Rubinstein's Collaborative Picture Story Books
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 7 no. 3 1997; (p. 5-9)Mills examines three of Rubinstein's children's books, Keep Me Company (1992), Jake and Pete (1995), and Jake and Pete and the Stray Dogs (1997), in the light of psychiatrist John Bowlby's writing on Attachment Theory and Separation Anxiety, arguing that despite offering a helpful context for reading the texts, 'aspects of the picture story books[s] remain outside his theoretical framework (7). Bowlby is notably silent regarding Freud's Oedipus complex, nor does he 'theorize the body' in any detail and Mills looks at the texts in relation to the gaps between the the two approaches (7). She extends the reading beyond the Bowlbian paradigm for mother-child separation anxiety revealing a much darker message regarding anxiety, loss and death, in the texts, stating that, 'In so far as the books explore a child's separation anxiety by way of animals' troubles, the happy endings are a fragile fiction' (9).