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'Angela Throgmorton lives with her mangy cat, the troublesome but lovable Old Tom. One morning Angela receives some exciting news: she's won an all-expenses paid luxury holiday--for one. Angela is sad to leave Old Tom, but there is plenty of food in the freezer and he needs to clean his room anyway. Angela visits museums and royal gardens, she rides on boats and trains, and she photographs everything so she can share the pictures with Old Tom when she gets home. But everywhere she goes, she sees something that reminds her of her beloved pet. The lonelier she gets, the more she misses Old Tom. Then a wonderful surprise turns Angela's solo adventure into a delightful holiday for two.' (Booktopia)
Notes
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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
- Everyday drinks
- Discretionary foods
- High sugar foods
Food practices - Eating in - meal
- Eating out - meal
- Eating out - snack
- Eating out - picnics
- Food serving
Gender - Food serving - male
Signage n/a Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place n/a Setting - Domestic interior
Food as social cohesion - Family meals [breakfast]
Food as cultural identity - White Australian characters
Food as character identity - Food as a visual handle
Food as language n/a
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Strolling Through the (Post)modern City: Modes of Being a Flâneur in Picture Books
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Lion and the Unicorn , January vol. 36 no. 1 2012; (p. 56-74) 'The city and the urban condition, popular subjects of art, literature, and film, have been commonly represented as fragmented, isolating, violent, with silent crowds moving through the hustle and bustle of a noisy, polluted cityspace. Included in this diverse artistic field is children's literature—an area of creative and critical inquiry that continues to play a central role in illuminating and shaping perceptions of the city, of city lifestyles, and of the people who traverse the urban landscape. Fiction's textual representations of cities, its sites and sights, lifestyles and characters have drawn on traditions of realist, satirical, and fantastic writing to produce the protean urban story—utopian, dystopian, visionary, satirical—with the goal of offering an account or critique of the contemporary city and the urban condition. In writing about cities and urban life, children's literature variously locates the child in relation to the social (urban) space. This dialogic relation between subject and social space has been at the heart of writings about/of the flâneur: a figure who experiences modes of being in the city as it transforms under the influences of modernism and postmodernism. Within this context of a changing urban ontology brought about by (post)modern styles and practices, this article examines five contemporary picture books: The Cows Are Going to Paris by David Kirby and Allen Woodman; Ooh-la-la (Max in love) by Maira Kalman; Mr Chicken Goes to Paris and Old Tom's Holiday by Leigh Hobbs; and The Empty City by David Megarrity. I investigate the possibility of these texts reviving the act of flânerie, but in a way that enables different modes of being a flâneur, a neo-flâneur. I suggest that the neo-flâneur retains some of the characteristics of the original flâneur, but incorporates others that take account of the changes wrought by postmodernity and globalization, particularly tourism and consumption. The dual issue at the heart of the discussion is that tourism and consumption as agents of cultural globalization offer a different way of thinking about the phenomenon of flânerie. While the flâneur can be regarded as the precursor to the tourist, the discussion considers how different modes of flânerie, such as the tourist-flâneur, are an inevitable outcome of commodification of the activities that accompany strolling through the (post)modern urban space' (Author's abstract). -
Old Tom's Big Adventure
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Limelight , July 2003; (p. 60)
— Review of Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2003
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 2-12) -
Young Reviewers of the Year
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 August 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book -
Prize Pick
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 July 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of The Potato People 2001 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book ; Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book ; In Flanders Fields 2002 single work picture book Heidi Maier surveys the nominations for the Best Picture Book category of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards and gives her judgement on which book deserves to win the 2003 award.
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Untitled
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 40)
— Review of Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book -
Children's Book Council of Australia : Review of Short-Listed Books 2003
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 5 2003; (p. 6-17)
— Review of The Girl from the Sea 2002 single work novel ; Painted Love Letters 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Song of an Innocent Bystander 2002 single work novel ; Walking Naked 2002 single work novel ; Njunjul the Sun 2002 single work novel ; The Messenger 2002 single work novel ; Where in the World 2002 single work children's fiction ; Rain May and Captain Daniel 2002 single work children's fiction ; Horrendo's Curse 2002 single work children's fiction ; Tom Jones Saves the World 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Barrumbi Kids 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Potato People 2001 single work picture book ; Guess the Baby 2002 single work picture book ; Too Loud Lily 2002 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm 2002 single work picture book ; Bear and Chook 2002 single work picture book ; Playmates 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book ; Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book ; In Flanders Fields 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat 2002 single work picture book ; Awesome! : Australian Art for Contemporary Kids 2002 single work information book ; The Mighty Murray 2002 single work non-fiction ; Discover and Learn About Australian Forests and Woodlands 2002 single work information book ; Iron in the Blood : Convicts and Commandants in Colonial Australia 2002 single work information book ; Black Snake : The Daring of Ned Kelly 2002 single work biography ; Endangered! Working to Save Animals at Risk 2002 single work information book -
Prize Pick
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 July 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of The Potato People 2001 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book ; Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book ; In Flanders Fields 2002 single work picture book Heidi Maier surveys the nominations for the Best Picture Book category of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards and gives her judgement on which book deserves to win the 2003 award. -
Young Reviewers of the Year
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 August 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book -
Secret Life of Parents
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 2 June 2002; (p. 46)
— Review of Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2003
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 2-12) -
Strolling Through the (Post)modern City: Modes of Being a Flâneur in Picture Books
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Lion and the Unicorn , January vol. 36 no. 1 2012; (p. 56-74) 'The city and the urban condition, popular subjects of art, literature, and film, have been commonly represented as fragmented, isolating, violent, with silent crowds moving through the hustle and bustle of a noisy, polluted cityspace. Included in this diverse artistic field is children's literature—an area of creative and critical inquiry that continues to play a central role in illuminating and shaping perceptions of the city, of city lifestyles, and of the people who traverse the urban landscape. Fiction's textual representations of cities, its sites and sights, lifestyles and characters have drawn on traditions of realist, satirical, and fantastic writing to produce the protean urban story—utopian, dystopian, visionary, satirical—with the goal of offering an account or critique of the contemporary city and the urban condition. In writing about cities and urban life, children's literature variously locates the child in relation to the social (urban) space. This dialogic relation between subject and social space has been at the heart of writings about/of the flâneur: a figure who experiences modes of being in the city as it transforms under the influences of modernism and postmodernism. Within this context of a changing urban ontology brought about by (post)modern styles and practices, this article examines five contemporary picture books: The Cows Are Going to Paris by David Kirby and Allen Woodman; Ooh-la-la (Max in love) by Maira Kalman; Mr Chicken Goes to Paris and Old Tom's Holiday by Leigh Hobbs; and The Empty City by David Megarrity. I investigate the possibility of these texts reviving the act of flânerie, but in a way that enables different modes of being a flâneur, a neo-flâneur. I suggest that the neo-flâneur retains some of the characteristics of the original flâneur, but incorporates others that take account of the changes wrought by postmodernity and globalization, particularly tourism and consumption. The dual issue at the heart of the discussion is that tourism and consumption as agents of cultural globalization offer a different way of thinking about the phenomenon of flânerie. While the flâneur can be regarded as the precursor to the tourist, the discussion considers how different modes of flânerie, such as the tourist-flâneur, are an inevitable outcome of commodification of the activities that accompany strolling through the (post)modern urban space' (Author's abstract). -
Leigh's Leap of Fame
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 June 2002; (p. 3)
Awards
- 2005 winner CROW Award
- 2005 winner BILBY (Books I Love Best Yearly) Awards
- 2004 winner CROW Award
- 2003 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
- 2003 winner YABBA — Picture Storybook