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y separately published work icon The Runaway Hug single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Runaway Hug
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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

  • 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

  • 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

    • Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales,: Scholastic Australia , 2011 .
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      Extent: 32p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 9781865044057 (hbk.) 9781741698909 (pbk.)
    • New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Random House ,
      2013 .
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      Extent: 1 v. (unpaged)p.
      Edition info: 1st American Ed.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 9780375981586 (e-book), 9780449818251 (trade)
Alternative title: 엄마, 꼭 안아 주세요
Transliterated title: Ŏmma, kkok ana chuseyo
Language: Korean
    • Seoul,
      c
      South Korea,
      c
      Korea, East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Ch'aek kwa K'ongnamu ,
      2011 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9788994077277, 8994077278

Works about this Work

Golden Books for Children Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
Small Eyes, Big Prize Angie Schiavone , 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)
Tall Tales on Short List Katharine England , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46)
Untitled Joy Steward , 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 Nick Bland , 2011 single work picture book
Adding to the Palette of Fiction Fiona Purdon , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 August 2011; (p. 68)
Untitled H. M. Saxby , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 26 no. 1 2011; (p. 26)

— Review of The Runaway Hug Nick Bland , 2011 single work picture book
A Matter of Style Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 332 2011; (p. 78-79)

— Review of I Am Thomas Libby Gleeson , 2011 single work picture book ; Tobias Blow Zacharey Jane , 2011 single work picture book ; The Little Dragon Mem Fox , 2011 single work picture book ; That's Not a Daffodil! Elizabeth Honey , 2011 single work picture book ; The Runaway Hug Nick Bland , 2011 single work picture book ; You Are My Special Baby Carol Chataway , 2011 single work picture book ; The Dream of the Thylacine Margaret Wild , 2011 single work picture book ; Captain Congo and the Klondike Gold Ruth Starke , 2011 single work picture book
Review of a variety of picture books for children.
Untitled Joy Steward , 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 Nick Bland , 2011 single work picture book
Adding to the Palette of Fiction Fiona Purdon , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 August 2011; (p. 68)
Tall Tales on Short List Katharine England , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46)
Small Eyes, Big Prize Angie Schiavone , 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 Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
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