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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
- Discretionary foods
- High sugar foods
Food practices - Food production
- Food preparation
Gender - Food production - female
- Food preparation - female [domestic]
Signage n/a Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place - Rural
- Historical
Setting - Rural landscape
Food as social cohesion - Rituals
Food as cultural identity - White Australian characters
Food as character identity - Imagining food
Food as language n/a
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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What Are We Feeding Our Children When We Read Them a Book? Depictions of Mothers and Food in Contemporary Australian Picture Books
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mothers and Food : Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives 2016; (p. 232-244)'This chapter explores how Australian writers and illustrators in the twenty-first century depict the act of mothering in picture books for young children in relation to cooking and serving food. It draws on the idea that children’s texts can be understood as sites of cultural production and reproduction, with social conventions and ideologies embedded in their narrative representations. The analysis is based on a survey of 124 books that were shortlisted for, or won, Children’s Book Council of Australia awards between 2001 and 2013. Of the eighty-seven titles that contain food and have human or anthropomorphised characters, twenty-six (30 percent) contain textual or illustrative references to maternal figures involved in food preparation or provision. Examination of this data set reveals that there is a strong correlation between non-Anglo-Australian maternal figures and home-cooked meals, and a clear link between Anglo-Australian mothers and sugar-rich snacks. The relative paucity of depictions of ethnically unmarked mothers offering more nutritious foods is notable given the cultural expectations of mothers as caretakers of their children’s well-being. At the same time, the linking of non-Anglo-Australian mothers with home-cooked meals can be seen as a means of signifying a cultural authenticity, a closeness to the earth that is differentiated from the normalised Australian culture represented in picture books. This suggests an unintended alignment of mothers preparing and serving meals with “otherness,” which creates a distancing effect between meals that may generally be considered nutritious and the normalised self. I contend there are unexamined, and perhaps unexpected, cultural assumptions about ethnicity, motherhood, and food embedded in contemporary Australian picture books. These have the potential to inscribe a system of beliefs about gender, cultural identity, and food that contributes to readers’ understanding of the world and themselves.'
Source: Abstract.
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Mapping Australia's Past in Picture Books
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 47 no. 2 2009; (p. 18-26) "This paper examines four influential Australian picture books that provide narratives from different perspectives, representing the white men's (and especially military) history, white women's (settler) history, Aboriginal history (from traditional life to colonial and then post-colonial), and finally everybody's history, especially giving a voice to children". - Paper abstract -
And Now for a Well Known Female Writer
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May 2008 vol. 52 no. 2 2008; (p. 12-13) -
A Vision Splendid
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 273 2005; (p. 61) -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 48 no. 4 2004; (p. 15)
— Review of Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book
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Shorts: Children's Books
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 2004; (p. 20)
— Review of The Mighty Bunyips 2004 single work picture book ; By the River 2004 single work novel ; Our School Fete 2004 single work picture book ; Forest 2001 single work novel ; Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book ; A Roomful of Magic 2004 single work children's fiction -
Bookshelf
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 October 2004; (p. 9)
— Review of Wings 2004 single work picture book ; Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book ; Fergal Onions 2004 single work picture book -
Animals, Boats and Shacks
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 265 2004; (p. 61-62)
— Review of Yardil 2004 single work picture book ; Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book ; Refugees 2003 single work picture book ; The Call of the Osprey 2004 single work picture book ; The Shack that Dad Built 2005 single work picture book -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 48 no. 4 2004; (p. 15)
— Review of Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book -
A Look at Jan Ormerod's Lizzie Nonsense
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 19 no. 4 2004; (p. 4-6) -
A Vision Splendid
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 273 2005; (p. 61) -
And Now for a Well Known Female Writer
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May 2008 vol. 52 no. 2 2008; (p. 12-13) -
Mapping Australia's Past in Picture Books
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 47 no. 2 2009; (p. 18-26) "This paper examines four influential Australian picture books that provide narratives from different perspectives, representing the white men's (and especially military) history, white women's (settler) history, Aboriginal history (from traditional life to colonial and then post-colonial), and finally everybody's history, especially giving a voice to children". - Paper abstract -
What Are We Feeding Our Children When We Read Them a Book? Depictions of Mothers and Food in Contemporary Australian Picture Books
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mothers and Food : Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives 2016; (p. 232-244)'This chapter explores how Australian writers and illustrators in the twenty-first century depict the act of mothering in picture books for young children in relation to cooking and serving food. It draws on the idea that children’s texts can be understood as sites of cultural production and reproduction, with social conventions and ideologies embedded in their narrative representations. The analysis is based on a survey of 124 books that were shortlisted for, or won, Children’s Book Council of Australia awards between 2001 and 2013. Of the eighty-seven titles that contain food and have human or anthropomorphised characters, twenty-six (30 percent) contain textual or illustrative references to maternal figures involved in food preparation or provision. Examination of this data set reveals that there is a strong correlation between non-Anglo-Australian maternal figures and home-cooked meals, and a clear link between Anglo-Australian mothers and sugar-rich snacks. The relative paucity of depictions of ethnically unmarked mothers offering more nutritious foods is notable given the cultural expectations of mothers as caretakers of their children’s well-being. At the same time, the linking of non-Anglo-Australian mothers with home-cooked meals can be seen as a means of signifying a cultural authenticity, a closeness to the earth that is differentiated from the normalised Australian culture represented in picture books. This suggests an unintended alignment of mothers preparing and serving meals with “otherness,” which creates a distancing effect between meals that may generally be considered nutritious and the normalised self. I contend there are unexamined, and perhaps unexpected, cultural assumptions about ethnicity, motherhood, and food embedded in contemporary Australian picture books. These have the potential to inscribe a system of beliefs about gender, cultural identity, and food that contributes to readers’ understanding of the world and themselves.'
Source: Abstract.
Awards
- Western Australia,
- Rural,
- 1800-1899