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Notes
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Clare Bradford states that 'the story on which this picture book is based won the 1997 Nestle Write Around Australia Creative Writing competition when Jing Jing Guo was in Year Six', according to a note in the back of the picture book. Source: 'Cross Generational Negotiations: Asian Australian Picture Books' p.39).
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains Chinese characters.
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Works about this Work
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Cross-Generational Negotiations : Asian-Australian Picture Books
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 36-42)Clare Bradford discusses a number of picture books and a junior novel in which the narratives are structured around interactions between Asian-Australian children and their grandparents; Grandpa and Ah Gong (Xiangyi Mo and Morag Loh, 1995), Old Magic (Alan Baillie, 1996), Grandpa's Mask (Di Wu and Jing Jing Guo, 2001), What a Mess Fang Fang! (Sally Rippin, 1998). She proposes that these texts provide an opportunity to introduce 'ideas around change, continuity and cultural meanings' to young readers through their specific focus on 'the everyday experiences of growing up in a multicultural society' (36). As children's texts 'habitually hinge upon narratives of growth and development' (36) Bradford points out that crosscultural and cross-generational relations between grandparents and their grandchildren are often informed by 'different experiences and perspective that are negotiated through external objects, artefacts and markings' (37). There is an emphasis on 'making' in the texts, that Bradford reads, in terms of multicultural discourse, as suggestive of Stevenson's notion that cultural citizens 'construct themselves...by learning to move within multiple and diverse communities' (41). Bradford's analysis points to the 'limitations of the picture book form' in 'representing the social and cultural complexities of diasporic experience' (41); however, she also sees these texts as speaking to children's literature more generally through 'a surplus of meaning, an excess of signification that seeks to provide pleasure while socializing young citizens' (41).
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Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Grandpa's Mask 2001 single work picture book -
The Eclectic Picture Book
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 234 2001; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Grandpa's Mask 2001 single work picture book ; Hello Baby 1999 single work picture book ; My Dog 2000 single work picture book ; Joseph 2001 single work picture book -
CoverNotes
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 July 2001; (p. 11) The West Australian , 14 July 2001; (p. 8)
— Review of Grandpa's Mask 2001 single work picture book ; Scam 2001 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Grandpa's Mask 2001 single work picture book -
CoverNotes
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 July 2001; (p. 11) The West Australian , 14 July 2001; (p. 8)
— Review of Grandpa's Mask 2001 single work picture book ; Scam 2001 single work children's fiction -
The Eclectic Picture Book
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 234 2001; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Grandpa's Mask 2001 single work picture book ; Hello Baby 1999 single work picture book ; My Dog 2000 single work picture book ; Joseph 2001 single work picture book -
Cross-Generational Negotiations : Asian-Australian Picture Books
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 36-42)Clare Bradford discusses a number of picture books and a junior novel in which the narratives are structured around interactions between Asian-Australian children and their grandparents; Grandpa and Ah Gong (Xiangyi Mo and Morag Loh, 1995), Old Magic (Alan Baillie, 1996), Grandpa's Mask (Di Wu and Jing Jing Guo, 2001), What a Mess Fang Fang! (Sally Rippin, 1998). She proposes that these texts provide an opportunity to introduce 'ideas around change, continuity and cultural meanings' to young readers through their specific focus on 'the everyday experiences of growing up in a multicultural society' (36). As children's texts 'habitually hinge upon narratives of growth and development' (36) Bradford points out that crosscultural and cross-generational relations between grandparents and their grandchildren are often informed by 'different experiences and perspective that are negotiated through external objects, artefacts and markings' (37). There is an emphasis on 'making' in the texts, that Bradford reads, in terms of multicultural discourse, as suggestive of Stevenson's notion that cultural citizens 'construct themselves...by learning to move within multiple and diverse communities' (41). Bradford's analysis points to the 'limitations of the picture book form' in 'representing the social and cultural complexities of diasporic experience' (41); however, she also sees these texts as speaking to children's literature more generally through 'a surplus of meaning, an excess of signification that seeks to provide pleasure while socializing young citizens' (41).