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y separately published work icon Papunya School Book of Country and History single work   information book   children's  
Note: Written text by Nadia Wheatley.
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Papunya School Book of Country and History
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'Tells the story of how Anangu from five different language groups came to live together at Papunya. From the time of the first contacts with explorers, missionaries and pastoralists, through to the Papunya art movement and the Warumpi Band, this multi-layered text finally leads us to the development of the unique educational environment that is Papunya School.' Source: Libraries Australia (Sighted 14/09/2009).

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2001 .
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      Extent: 48p.
      Description: col. illus., map.
      Reprinted: 2004
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      • Australian published July 2003
      ISBN: 186508526X, 1865085251 (pbk.), 9781865085265, 9781865085258

Works about this Work

What Are We Feeding Our Children When We Read Them a Book? Depictions of Mothers and Food in Contemporary Australian Picture Books Laurel Cohn , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Mothers and Food : Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives 2016; (p. 232-244)

'This chapter explores how Australian writers and illustrators in the twenty-first century depict the act of mothering in picture books for young children in relation to cooking and serving food. It draws on the idea that children’s texts can be understood as sites of cultural production and reproduction, with social conventions and ideologies embedded in their narrative representations. The analysis is based on a survey of 124 books that were shortlisted for, or won, Children’s Book Council of Australia awards between 2001 and 2013. Of the eighty-seven titles that contain food and have human or anthropomorphised characters, twenty-six (30 percent) contain textual or illustrative references to maternal figures involved in food preparation or provision. Examination of this data set reveals that there is a strong correlation between non-Anglo-Australian maternal figures and home-cooked meals, and a clear link between Anglo-Australian mothers and sugar-rich snacks. The relative paucity of depictions of ethnically unmarked mothers offering more nutritious foods is notable given the cultural expectations of mothers as caretakers of their children’s well-being. At the same time, the linking of non-Anglo-Australian mothers with home-cooked meals can be seen as a means of signifying a cultural authenticity, a closeness to the earth that is differentiated from the normalised Australian culture represented in picture books. This suggests an unintended alignment of mothers preparing and serving meals with “otherness,” which creates a distancing effect between meals that may generally be considered nutritious and the normalised self. I contend there are unexamined, and perhaps unexpected, cultural assumptions about ethnicity, motherhood, and food embedded in contemporary Australian picture books. These have the potential to inscribe a system of beliefs about gender, cultural identity, and food that contributes to readers’ understanding of the world and themselves.'

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Children's Literature About Country BlackWords : Children's Literature About Country Anita Heiss , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 6) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

In this essay Heiss addresses the increasing number of Aboriginal authored children's and young adult literature published that focuses on the 'meaning of place' in an Indigenous context. She demonstrates this by selecting writings and stories from regions such as remote, semi-remote and desert to tropics, which showcase the diversity of life in different parts of Indigenous Australia and the essence of Aboriginal storytelling.

Paranoid Prizing : Mapping Australia’s Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, 2001–2010 Erica Hateley , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , January vol. 51 no. 1 2013; (p. 41-50)
'Each year, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers a number of Book of the Year Awards, including the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. The books chosen by the CBCA constitute a contemporary canon of Australian children's literature, and serve to both shape and reflect current educational policies and practices as well as young Australians' sense of themselves and their nation. This paper reads a selection of award-winning Australian non-fiction children's literature in the context of colonialism, curriculum, military myths, and Aboriginal perspectives on national history and identity.'
Aboriginal Children's Literature : More Than Just Pretty Pictures Anita Heiss , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008; (p. 102-117) The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 7) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

'This essay explores how some recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authored titles have used local languages and personal histories - including complex stories which deal with the Stolen Generations - to engage and educate young Australian readers, while providing much needed inspiration to nurture Indigenous audiences.' (Source: Heiss, Anita, Aboriginal Literature for Children: More Than Just Pretty Pictures, 2015)

'Oh How Different!' : Regimes of Knowledge in Aboriginal Texts for Children Clare Bradford , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 27 no. 2 2003; (p. 199-217)
Untitled Kathy Forward , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 46 no. 2 2002; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book
Aboriginal Children's Books - Not Just Pretty Pictures Anita Heiss , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 62 no. 2 2002; (p. 184-187)

— Review of Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book
Of Meaning, Rhythm and Art Belle Y. Alderman , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 October 2001; (p. 18)

— Review of Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; In My Backyard Nette Hilton , 2001 single work picture book ; Night Without Darkness Elizabeth Stanley , 2001 single work picture book ; Zara's Zoo Irena Sibley , 2001 single work picture book
Child's View of History Jenny Pausacker , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 November 2001; (p. 11)

— Review of Who Am I? : The Diary of Mary Talence : Sydney, 1937 Anita Heiss , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; Ramose : Prince in Exile Carole Wilkinson , 2001 single work children's fiction
Teaching Tradition Virginia Lowe , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 235 2001; (p. 61-62)

— Review of The Perfect Pet Carol Chataway , 2001 single work picture book ; Mega, Mega, Mates! Guundie Kuchling , 2001 single work picture book ; Nardika Learns to Make a Spear Christopher Fry , 2001 single work non-fiction ; Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; Let's Get a Pup Bob Graham , 2001 single work picture book ; An Ordinary Day Libby Gleeson , 2001 single work picture book
The Children's Book Council of Australia : Annual Awards 2002 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 2-13)
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Papunya School Publishing Committee Papunya School Publishing Committee , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 6-8)
The Country Holds the Stories Papunya School Publishing Committee , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Orana , November vol. 38 no. 3 2002; (p. 4-6)
'Oh How Different!' : Regimes of Knowledge in Aboriginal Texts for Children Clare Bradford , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 27 no. 2 2003; (p. 199-217)
Aboriginal Children's Literature : More Than Just Pretty Pictures Anita Heiss , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008; (p. 102-117) The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 7) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

'This essay explores how some recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authored titles have used local languages and personal histories - including complex stories which deal with the Stolen Generations - to engage and educate young Australian readers, while providing much needed inspiration to nurture Indigenous audiences.' (Source: Heiss, Anita, Aboriginal Literature for Children: More Than Just Pretty Pictures, 2015)

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