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y separately published work icon Dust single work   picture book   children's  
Note: Illustrations by Colin Thompson, Tohby Riddle, Gaye Chapman, Richard Yot, Kim Gamble, Judy Horacek, Tom Byrne, Terry Denton, Emma Quay, Bruce Whatley, Dee Texidor, Anna Pignataro, David Legge and Chris Mould.
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Dust
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Notes

  • 'In 2005, television news around the world reported the terrible starvation that was killing thousands of people in Niger. As a result, Colin Thompson ... called together thirteen talented and internationally famous illustrators to create a book to raise money to try to help ... The illustrators who ... contributed to this startling book have all done so for free. All royalties earned will be donated to the Save the Children organisation in Australia.' (Publisher's blurb)
  • 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
    Food practices n/a
    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 characters
    • Non-Anglo characters
    • Refugee story
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: ABC Books , 2007 .
      image of person or book cover 4477472342920674983.gif
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 2014
      ISBN: 9780733320736, 9780733333767

Works about this Work

Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century Erica Hateley , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature 2016; (p. 205-221)

'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'

The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2008 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 3 - 9)
[Untitled] Clare Kennedy , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 16 no. 3 2008; (p. 7)

— Review of Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
Untitled Pippa Williams , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 21 no. 3 2007; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
Whacko's Egg-Cellent Adventure Meg Sorensen , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 September 2007; (p. 33)

— Review of Whacko the Chook Mark Svendsen , 2007 single work picture book ; Circus Carnivore Mark Svendsen , 2005 single work picture book ; Boris Monster, Scared of Nothing Sofie Laguna , 2007 single work picture book ; Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 22 no. 2 2007; (p. 32)

— Review of Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
Untitled Katharine England , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 July 2007; (p. 12)

— Review of Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
Group of Eclectic Jewels Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 July 2007; (p. 18)

— Review of Shhh! Little Mouse Pamela Allen , 2007 single work picture book ; Whacko the Chook Mark Svendsen , 2007 single work picture book ; Ziba Came on a Boat Liz Lofthouse , 2007 single work picture book ; Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
Whacko's Egg-Cellent Adventure Meg Sorensen , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 September 2007; (p. 33)

— Review of Whacko the Chook Mark Svendsen , 2007 single work picture book ; Circus Carnivore Mark Svendsen , 2005 single work picture book ; Boris Monster, Scared of Nothing Sofie Laguna , 2007 single work picture book ; Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
[Untitled] Clare Kennedy , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 16 no. 3 2008; (p. 7)

— Review of Dust Colin Thompson , 2007 single work picture book
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2008 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 3 - 9)
Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century Erica Hateley , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature 2016; (p. 205-221)

'The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers the oldest national prize for children’s literature in Australia. Each year, the CBCA confers “Book of the Year” awards to literature for young people in five categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books and Information Books. In recent years the Picture Book category has emerged as a highly visible space within which the CBCA can contest discourses of cultural marginalization which construct Australian (‘colonial’) literature as inferior or adjunct to the major Anglophone literary traditions, and children’s literature as lesser than its adult counterpart. The CBCA has moved from asserting its authority by withholding judgment in the award’s early years towards asserting expertise via overtly politicized selections in the twenty-first century. Reading across the CBCA’s selections of picture books allows for insights into wider trends in Australian children’s literature and culture, and suggests a conscious engagement with social as well as literary values on the part of the CBCA in the twenty-first century.'

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