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Lucy shares the hug with everyone in her family. Along the way it becomes softer, sleepier, bigger, even peanut-buttery. But when the hug runs away, Lucy discovers that it is not so easy to get it back (Libraries Australia).
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
- Fresh foods
Food practices n/a Gender n/a Signage n/a Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place - Domestic
Setting - Domestic interior
Food as social cohesion n/a Food as cultural identity - White Australian characters
Food as character identity n/a Food as language n/a
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Golden Books for Children
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3) -
Small Eyes, Big Prize
2012
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 18 August 2012; (p. 24-25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2012; (p. 30-31) -
Tall Tales on Short List
2012
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46) -
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2011
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 16)
— Review of The Runaway Hug 2011 single work picture book -
Adding to the Palette of Fiction
2011
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 August 2011; (p. 68)
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Untitled
2011
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 26 no. 1 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of The Runaway Hug 2011 single work picture book -
A Matter of Style
2011
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 332 2011; (p. 78-79)
— Review of I Am Thomas 2011 single work picture book ; Tobias Blow 2011 single work picture book ; The Little Dragon 2011 single work picture book ; That's Not a Daffodil! 2011 single work picture book ; The Runaway Hug 2011 single work picture book ; You Are My Special Baby 2011 single work picture book ; The Dream of the Thylacine 2011 single work picture book ; Captain Congo and the Klondike Gold 2011 single work picture book Review of a variety of picture books for children. -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 16)
— Review of The Runaway Hug 2011 single work picture book -
Adding to the Palette of Fiction
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 August 2011; (p. 68) -
Tall Tales on Short List
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46) -
Small Eyes, Big Prize
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 18 August 2012; (p. 24-25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2012; (p. 30-31) -
Golden Books for Children
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
Awards
- 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Picture Book
- 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Early Childhood
- 2012 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Early Childhood
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