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'...Dancing in the Anzac Deli tell the tale of Mareka and the Wilson kids, who live in an ordinary inner-city neighbourhood but find themselves caught up in extraordinary adventures. What with the professor s tricks, Yaya s magic, the Haunted House and the mysterious Munga, it sometimes seems as if Smith Street is the most exciting place in Australia.' (Source: On-line)
Adaptations
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form
y
Five Times Dizzy
SBS Television
(publisher),
( dir. John Eastway
)
Pyrmont
:
Samson Film Services
SBS Television
,
1986
Z973706
1986
series - publisher
film/TV
children's
A children's comedy drama series, concerning a Greek family and their attempts to run a deli in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Newtown. When the grandmother, YaYa, arrives from Greece to live with them, she has a great deal of trouble adjusting to her new life, until her eleven-year-old granddaughter Marika buys her a goat.
Notes
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Based on a screenplay by Nadia Wheatley and Terry Larsen.
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Sequel to Five Times Dizzy.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Related Works
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y
Five Times Dizzy
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1982
Z836401
1982
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Mareka would be quite happy in the milkbar in Newtown, even though it is so far from Greece, if it wasn't for the Wilson kids who give her a hard time.'
'But her Yaya, her grandmother has only recently arrived in Australia and feels lost and unhappy. She misses her mountain village and her goat, Poppy. If only Mareka cound find her something to do...'
'Then she has an idea. But it's such a big idea she feels dizzy - and there are such a lot of problems...'(Source: Back cover)
Works about this Work
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Five Times Dizzy and Dancing in the ANZAC Deli by Nadia Wheatley
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2012;
— Review of Five Times Dizzy 1982 single work children's fiction ; Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction -
y
Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
Source: Abstract.
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Advocating Multiculturalism: Migrants in Australian Children's Literature After 1972
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 180-188) This article is concerned with a major shift in Australian ideology and values that Stephens argues occurred during the 1970s. He argues that 'within a decade during the 1970s Australian political and educational institutions underwent a palpable shift towards an ideology of multiculturalism and Australian Children's Literature shifted with it' (180). By the mid-seventies multiculturalism in children's literature was advocated as 'a desirable social value and one to be inculcated in child readers' (180). Multiculturalism in children's fiction was conceived as 'acceptance of difference and heterogeneity' which was in accordance with the general principles expressed by the Australian Council on population and Ethnic Affairs (1982). Stephens critiques a number of contemporary novels that deal with issues of multiculturalism and identity formation: On Loan (Anne Brooksbank), The Boys from Bondi (Alan Collins), Moving Out (Helen Garner & Jennifer Giles), New Patches for Old (Christobel Mattingly), Deepwater (Judith O'Neill), The Other Side of the Family (Maureen Pople), The Seventh Pebble (Eleanor Spence), Five Times Dizzy and Dancing in the Anzac Deli (Nadia Wheatley). He makes three pertinent claims regarding representations of multicultural identity and/or community in Australia: that the representation of multiculturalism is questionable in these novels as most of the authors do not come from a non-Anglo background; that there is a general subordination of the themes of migration and culture to the theme of personal identity development (a common thematic concern of children's literature); while the novels 'pivot on aspects of difference' the narratives are generally focalized through members of the majority culture and 'hence the privilege of narrative subjectivity is rarely bestowed upon minority groups' (181). Stephens posits that within the genre of children's fiction, 'the absence of significant migrant voices...leads to a partial and hence false, representation of the Australian experience of migration and the development of multiculturalism' (181). -
Reading Blinky Bill Playing Beatie Bow or Dancing in the Anzac Deli : A Choose Your Own Textual Theory Adventure by Georgie Faraway
1987
single work
short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 13 no. 1 1987; (p. 26-32) -
Judges' Report, 1985
1985
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 96 1985; (p. 2-8)
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The 1985 Australian Children's Book Awards
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 72 1985; (p. 8-10)
— Review of Home in the Sky 1984 single work picture book ; Ayu and the Perfect Moon 1984 single work picture book ; Arthur 1984 single work picture book ; The Angel with a Mouth-Organ 1984 single work picture book ; The Inch Boy Helen Smith (translator), 1984 single work picture book ; There's a Sea in My Bedroom 1984 single work picture book ; The Tree Witches 1983 single work picture book ; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 1984 single work picture book ; The True Story of Lilli Stubeck 1984 single work novel ; Adrift 1984 single work children's fiction ; Eleanor, Elizabeth 1984 single work children's fiction ; Papio 1984 single work novel ; Penny Pollard's Letters 1984 single work correspondence ; Something Special 1984 single work children's fiction ; Me and Jeshua 1984 single work children's fiction ; Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
[Review] Dancing in the Anzac Deli [et al]
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 April 1985;
— Review of Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction ; Me and Jeshua 1984 single work children's fiction ; Something Special 1984 single work children's fiction ; Papio 1984 single work novel ; Penny Pollard's Letters 1984 single work correspondence ; Adrift 1984 single work children's fiction ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
Untitled
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald (Sydney) , 21 July 1985;
— Review of Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction -
Five Times Dizzy and Dancing in the ANZAC Deli by Nadia Wheatley
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2012;
— Review of Five Times Dizzy 1982 single work children's fiction ; Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction -
Reading Blinky Bill Playing Beatie Bow or Dancing in the Anzac Deli : A Choose Your Own Textual Theory Adventure by Georgie Faraway
1987
single work
short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 13 no. 1 1987; (p. 26-32) -
Judges' Report, 1985
1985
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 96 1985; (p. 2-8) -
Advocating Multiculturalism: Migrants in Australian Children's Literature After 1972
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 180-188) This article is concerned with a major shift in Australian ideology and values that Stephens argues occurred during the 1970s. He argues that 'within a decade during the 1970s Australian political and educational institutions underwent a palpable shift towards an ideology of multiculturalism and Australian Children's Literature shifted with it' (180). By the mid-seventies multiculturalism in children's literature was advocated as 'a desirable social value and one to be inculcated in child readers' (180). Multiculturalism in children's fiction was conceived as 'acceptance of difference and heterogeneity' which was in accordance with the general principles expressed by the Australian Council on population and Ethnic Affairs (1982). Stephens critiques a number of contemporary novels that deal with issues of multiculturalism and identity formation: On Loan (Anne Brooksbank), The Boys from Bondi (Alan Collins), Moving Out (Helen Garner & Jennifer Giles), New Patches for Old (Christobel Mattingly), Deepwater (Judith O'Neill), The Other Side of the Family (Maureen Pople), The Seventh Pebble (Eleanor Spence), Five Times Dizzy and Dancing in the Anzac Deli (Nadia Wheatley). He makes three pertinent claims regarding representations of multicultural identity and/or community in Australia: that the representation of multiculturalism is questionable in these novels as most of the authors do not come from a non-Anglo background; that there is a general subordination of the themes of migration and culture to the theme of personal identity development (a common thematic concern of children's literature); while the novels 'pivot on aspects of difference' the narratives are generally focalized through members of the majority culture and 'hence the privilege of narrative subjectivity is rarely bestowed upon minority groups' (181). Stephens posits that within the genre of children's fiction, 'the absence of significant migrant voices...leads to a partial and hence false, representation of the Australian experience of migration and the development of multiculturalism' (181). -
y
Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
Source: Abstract.
Awards
- Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
