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y separately published work icon Window single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Window
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Through a house window the view gradually changes over the passage of time to show how the environment changes, not necessarily for the better.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Julia MacRae Books ,       1991 .
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0862034922, 1856810100
    • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Walker Books Australia , 2012 .
      image of person or book cover 7920952936548378428.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 32p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 November 2002
      ISBN: 9780744594867
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Window : An Australian Outlook Christopher John Kirkbright , John Vandenbeld , Sydney : Royal Botanic Gardens, (Sydney, N.S.W.) , 1991 Z998034 1991 anthology criticism From May 1991- August 1992 an exhibtion on Jeannie Baker's picture book Windows travelled to seven Australian cities and towns. The exhibition of fourteen collages was accompanied at all venues by this resource guide and a picture book of the collages published by Julia MacRae books.
The resource guide contains two articles: 'In the Dreamtime : Attitudes to Land in Aboriginal Australia' by Christopher John Kirkbright and 'Learning the Country : The Impact of Europeans' by John Vandenbeld.
y separately published work icon Belonging Jeannie Baker (illustrator), Jeannie Baker , London : Walker Books [London] , 2004 Z1134871 2004 single work picture book children's (taught in 1 units)

'An alienating city street gradually becomes a place to call home. Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbours begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They stop the cars. Everything begins to blossom. Belonging explores the re-greening of the city: the role of community, the empowerment of people and the significance of children, family and neighbourhood in changing their urban environment. The streets gradually become places for safe children's play, and community activity and places for nature and wonder.'

(Source: Author's website, http://www.jeanniebaker.com/picture_books_index.htm)
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Works about this Work

Fortunate Lives : Societal Ideologies in Two Award Winning Australian Picture Books Robin Morrow , single work criticism
Longing and Belonging in the Green Worlds of Jeannie Baker Penni Russon , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 75-87)

'Jeannie Baker uses mixed materials, including real plants, to illustrate relationships between nature, humans and suburban and urban development in her textless collage picturebooks Window (1991) and Belonging (2004). These popular texts are read and studied in the classroom to raise environmental awareness and explore themes of sustainable development and community action. How can a reading of these two books through the lens of Indigenous writer and academic Ambelin Kwaymullina’s verse manifesto, Living on Stolen Land, reveal and disturb the mechanisms of settler-colonialism as they appear in Baker’s work? Placing these texts in juxtaposition with each other generates new understandings and new narrative possibilities.' (Publication abstract)
Passion, Pedagogy and the Political : Looking Back, Looking Forward Lyn Wilkinson , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 27-35)
From Eden to Suburbia : Perspectives on the Natural World in Children's Literature John Stephens , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 16 no. 2 2006; (p. 40-45) Stephen's compares a number of children's texts, including Jeannie Baker's Window and Belonging, which focus on representations of the natural environment. Stephen's articulates three ideological perspectives which are the most common approaches to dealing with ecological issues in children's literature; the positioning of human subjectivity as outside of nature; the assumption that 'a represented landscape must include humans to perceive it and operate as a site of some kind of narrative'; and the representation of nature as 'endangered' and reliant upon human intervention and appropriate management (41). Stephens claims that overall, texts with an ecological message show a tendency to locate humans as both the cause of and solution to, ecological destruction, and texts which are seeking to actively engage with ecology issues are usually a variation of the second type (45). For Stephen's, Baker's Belonging is a 'quintessential' example of a novel which positions the perspective of humans outside of nature and as the source of value and meaning (45).
No Words Required for Green Message Christopher Bantick , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 August 2004; (p. 6) Jeannie Baker uses intricate collages to portray her message of environmental conservation in her picture books for children.
Untitled George Howard , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 2 1991; (p. 13)
— Review of Window Jeannie Baker , 1991 single work picture book
[Review] Window Ellen Fader , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Horn Book Magazine , May/June vol. 67 no. 3 1991; (p. 312-313)
— Review of Window Jeannie Baker , 1991 single work picture book
PreSchool & Primary Grades Fiction O. H. , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: School Library Journal : For Children's, Young Adult and School Librarians , March vol. 37 no. 3 1991; (p. 166)
— Review of Window Jeannie Baker , 1991 single work picture book
Untitled Mark Butler , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Classroom , June vol. 11 no. 5 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Window Jeannie Baker , 1991 single work picture book
Changing Scenes from a Window Laurie Copping , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 October 1991;
— Review of Nurse Lugton's Curtain Virginia Woolf , 1991 single work picture book ; Window Jeannie Baker , 1991 single work picture book
No Words Required for Green Message Christopher Bantick , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 August 2004; (p. 6) Jeannie Baker uses intricate collages to portray her message of environmental conservation in her picture books for children.
Cover Book : Window by Jeannie Baker Kevin Steinberger , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 6 no. 2 1991; (p. 4)
Environmentally Friendly Australian Children's Fiction : The 1991 Crop John Foster , 1992 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 7 no. 3 1992; (p. 20-21)
From Eden to Suburbia : Perspectives on the Natural World in Children's Literature John Stephens , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 16 no. 2 2006; (p. 40-45) Stephen's compares a number of children's texts, including Jeannie Baker's Window and Belonging, which focus on representations of the natural environment. Stephen's articulates three ideological perspectives which are the most common approaches to dealing with ecological issues in children's literature; the positioning of human subjectivity as outside of nature; the assumption that 'a represented landscape must include humans to perceive it and operate as a site of some kind of narrative'; and the representation of nature as 'endangered' and reliant upon human intervention and appropriate management (41). Stephens claims that overall, texts with an ecological message show a tendency to locate humans as both the cause of and solution to, ecological destruction, and texts which are seeking to actively engage with ecology issues are usually a variation of the second type (45). For Stephen's, Baker's Belonging is a 'quintessential' example of a novel which positions the perspective of humans outside of nature and as the source of value and meaning (45).
Passion, Pedagogy and the Political : Looking Back, Looking Forward Lyn Wilkinson , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 27-35)
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