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y separately published work icon Chickpea single work   children's fiction   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Chickpea
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"Hooman is delighted when his father lets him have a chicken, and his sister, Mina, a cat. The two children are being raised by their father since their mother died shortly after they came from Iran to live in Australia." (Back cover)

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  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains Iranian-Australian characters.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Scholastic Australia , 1997 .
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      Extent: 1863886427 (pbk.)p.
      ISBN: 55
      Series: y separately published work icon ID Scholastic Australia (publisher), Lindfield : Scholastic Australia , 1997-1998 12997688 1997-1998 series - publisher children's fiction children's
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y separately published work icon Velvet Marguerite Hann Syme , Lindfield : Scholastic Australia , 2001 Z922074 2001 single work children's fiction children's "It's one crisis after another for Hooman and Mina.

They must find other homes for Chickpea's chickens or else...

Velvet, Mina's cat, keeps going missing and when she is finally found it looks very much as if they will never see her again...

And poor Afshin, Hooman and Mina's father, is at his wit's end trying to manage his children, let alone their pets." (Back cover)
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The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1998 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 42 no. 3 1998; (p. 3-13) Judge's report of the winners and shortlisted books in this year's CBCA awards.
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1998 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 42 no. 3 1998; (p. 3-13) Judge's report of the winners and shortlisted books in this year's CBCA awards.
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