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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains a Chinese-Australian character.
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Other Formats
- Also braille and sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Blood Doesn't Define Evotypical Families: Eleanor Spence's Stories of Informal and Formal Foster Care in Australia
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 59 no. 2 2021; (p. 27-39)'Close family bonds among individuals who are not blood-related are explored here in three works of Australian award-winning children's author Eleanor Spence. Although written in 1967, 1969, and 1982, Spence created narratives with authentic Australian contexts around what is currently acknowledged as evotypical families. These books support the education of Australian young people in developing progressive views of family formation and realizing the significance of family bonds that go beyond blood relatives.' (Introduction)
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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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Untitled
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 89 1983; (p. 49)
— Review of The Left Overs 1982 single work children's fiction -
Children's Book Council of Australia Judge's Report, 1983
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 88 1983; (p. 6-13) -
[Review] Toby's Millions [et al]
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 March 1983;
— Review of Toby's Millions 1982 single work children's fiction ; The Watcher in the Garden 1982 single work children's fiction ; Thing 1982 single work children's fiction ; The Left Overs 1982 single work children's fiction ; The Dragon Stone 1982 single work novel ; Three Way Street 1982 single work novel ; Moonlight 1982 single work picture book ; Battles in the Bath 1982 single work picture book
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[Review] Toby's Millions [et al]
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 March 1983;
— Review of Toby's Millions 1982 single work children's fiction ; The Watcher in the Garden 1982 single work children's fiction ; Thing 1982 single work children's fiction ; The Left Overs 1982 single work children's fiction ; The Dragon Stone 1982 single work novel ; Three Way Street 1982 single work novel ; Moonlight 1982 single work picture book ; Battles in the Bath 1982 single work picture book -
Untitled
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 89 1983; (p. 49)
— Review of The Left Overs 1982 single work children's fiction -
Children's Book Council of Australia Judge's Report, 1983
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 88 1983; (p. 6-13) -
Blood Doesn't Define Evotypical Families: Eleanor Spence's Stories of Informal and Formal Foster Care in Australia
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 59 no. 2 2021; (p. 27-39)'Close family bonds among individuals who are not blood-related are explored here in three works of Australian award-winning children's author Eleanor Spence. Although written in 1967, 1969, and 1982, Spence created narratives with authentic Australian contexts around what is currently acknowledged as evotypical families. These books support the education of Australian young people in developing progressive views of family formation and realizing the significance of family bonds that go beyond blood relatives.' (Introduction)
-
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
- 1983 highly commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award
- Millbrook, Moorabool Shire - Ballarat area, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,