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'Jake and Pete is a road story for cats. Having learnt cat talk, Gillian Rubinstein tells a wonderfully funny and scary tale of two kitkids who go out into the world and find it full of dogs, cars, brooms, boots and snakes, when what they really want is a mice home with a big fridge.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Jake and Pete and the Stray Dogs, single work children's fiction children's humour
- Jake & Pete and the Catcrowbats, single work children's fiction children's humour
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Jake and Pete and the Magpie's Wedding,
single work
children's fiction
children's
humour
'Jake and Pete and the Drain Boggart, Bog, are up to their usual adventures. Jake's sense of smell returns in the Garden of Lost Things and Pete grows more and more disgruntled with his poor vision. As Jake tries to adjust to a world of strange scents and odours, Pete reveals a dark-side as his hostility and anger mounts. On top of this, the unlikely trio are off to a magpie's wedding! And, as Bog explains to the kittwins, it is a very special honour indeed to be invited to a magpie's wedding. What will they give for a gift? How will Pete behave while he is in this mood? Will poor Pete ever see again?' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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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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[Review] Jake and Pete
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 10 no. 3 1995; (p. 22)
— Review of Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction -
[Review] Jake and Pete
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 39 no. 3 1995; (p. 29)
— Review of Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction -
Story-telling Panache
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 172 1995; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction ; Tashi 1995 selected work children's fiction ; More About the Mob 1995 selected work children's fiction -
Ten Little Australians for Middle-Aged Children
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , November vol. 7 no. 3-4 1995; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Foxspell 1994 single work novel ; The White Guinea-Pig 1994 single work novel ; Somewhere Around the Corner 1994 single work children's fiction ; Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction ; Way Home 1994 single work picture book ; Featherbys 1993 single work novel ; A Bit of a Hitch 1995 selected work children's fiction ; The Magic Caravan 1995 single work children's fiction ; Ark in the Park 1994 single work children's fiction ; Power and Glory 1994 single work picture book ; The White Guinea-Pig 1994 single work novel
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[Review] Jake and Pete
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 10 no. 3 1995; (p. 22)
— Review of Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction -
Ten Little Australians for Middle-Aged Children
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , November vol. 7 no. 3-4 1995; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Foxspell 1994 single work novel ; The White Guinea-Pig 1994 single work novel ; Somewhere Around the Corner 1994 single work children's fiction ; Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction ; Way Home 1994 single work picture book ; Featherbys 1993 single work novel ; A Bit of a Hitch 1995 selected work children's fiction ; The Magic Caravan 1995 single work children's fiction ; Ark in the Park 1994 single work children's fiction ; Power and Glory 1994 single work picture book ; The White Guinea-Pig 1994 single work novel -
Story-telling Panache
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 172 1995; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction ; Tashi 1995 selected work children's fiction ; More About the Mob 1995 selected work children's fiction -
[Review] Jake and Pete
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 39 no. 3 1995; (p. 29)
— Review of Jake and Pete 1995 selected work children's fiction -
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).
