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y separately published work icon The Call of the Osprey single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 The Call of the Osprey
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'The door of the boatshed creaked slowly open and a young boy peered inside. His face lit up in wonder as he looked around.When Tom Stevenson meets the Captain he enters and extraordinary world of blisters and barnacles, pirates and gun-runners, shipwrecks and sea creatures. Working side by side to slowly restore an old steam boat, their friendship grows and strengthens.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • 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 drinks
    Food practices
    • Eating in - snack
    Gender n/a
    Signage n/a
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place n/a
    Setting n/a
    Food as social cohesion n/a
    Food as cultural identity
    • White Australian characters
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2004 .
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      Extent: 1 v. (unpaged)p.
      Description: illus. (some col.).
      Note/s:

      • Published 1 June 2004

      ISBN: 1920731857, 9781920731854
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Works about this Work

Animals, Boats and Shacks Sherryl Clark , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 265 2004; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Yardil Rosanne Hawke , 2004 single work picture book ; Lizzie Nonsense Jan Ormerod , 2004 single work picture book ; Refugees David Miller , 2003 single work picture book ; The Call of the Osprey Norman Jorgensen , 2004 single work picture book ; The Shack that Dad Built Elaine Russell , 2005 single work picture book
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 19 no. 3 2004; (p. 30)
— Review of The Call of the Osprey Norman Jorgensen , 2004 single work picture book
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 19 no. 3 2004; (p. 30)
— Review of The Call of the Osprey Norman Jorgensen , 2004 single work picture book
Animals, Boats and Shacks Sherryl Clark , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 265 2004; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Yardil Rosanne Hawke , 2004 single work picture book ; Lizzie Nonsense Jan Ormerod , 2004 single work picture book ; Refugees David Miller , 2003 single work picture book ; The Call of the Osprey Norman Jorgensen , 2004 single work picture book ; The Shack that Dad Built Elaine Russell , 2005 single work picture book
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Awards

2004 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Children's Books
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