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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 An Ordinary Day
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'The journey to school is an everyday, grey-day experience for Jack. On the way to the bus stop, however, Jack is rescued by his imagination. Bit by bit, the ordinary world is transformed into a place of wonder and infinite possibilities.' (Sourced from Book Depository)

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
    • Everyday drinks
    Food practices
    • Eating in - meal [breakfast]
    • Food preparation
    Gender
    • Food preparation - male [boy]
    Signage n/a
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place
    • Domestic
    Setting
    • Domestic interior
    • Urban landscape
    Food as social cohesion
    • Family meals [breakfast]
    Food as cultural identity
    • White Australian characters
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales,: Scholastic Australia , 2001 .
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      Extent: 32p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Reprinted: 2002
      Note/s:

      • Published 23 August 2001

      ISBN: 1865043575, 9781865043579
    • Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales,: Scholastic Australia , 2001 .
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      Extent: 32 p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:

      • Published 30 August 2001

      ISBN: 9781865043586, 1865043583
Alternative title: Un Día Cualquiera
Language: Spanish
    • Bogota,
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      Colombia,
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      South America, Americas,      :       Grupo Editorial Norma ,       2006 .
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      Extent: 34 p.p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 9789580495017, 9580495017
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Works about this Work

Spatialities of Emotion : Place and Non-place in Children’s Picture Books Kerry Mallan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature : Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults 2018; (p. 129-145)

'One of the key functions of literature and film is to represent and evoke emotion. Unlike conventional narrative approaches common to novels and films that rely on narrative action and dialogue to evoke emotion, picture books offer a different affect through minimal dialogue or description, aesthetics, and stylistic inventiveness. The concept of non-place offers an additional means for exploring how places and spaces in picture books embody some of the characteristics that Augé describes. Writers for young people often promote emotional engagement with characters and place by orienting their readers in both real and imaginary spaces, creating geographies of emotion.' 
Imagination and Art Matt Zurbo , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 17 no. 1 2009; (p. 9) Matt Zurbo discusses contrasting styles of storytelling in picture books and refers to the work of Armin Greder, specifically An Ordinary Day and Shaun Tan's The Arrival, as examples of image-based stories that use minimal, or no verbal text as opposed to the 'real life' style Graeme Base re-introduced, or the popularity and longevity of 'rhyming books for young children' inspired by Dr Seuss. He tells of his communication with Armin Greder in regards to one of his own 'text-heavy stories': "My agent sent him the story . His reply was a very thorough, terse letter detailing his obvious passion for stories with minimal text...In short, he let rip at me." While Zurbo admires An Ordinary Day as 'a most beautiful book', he argues that this particular style is still 'just a trend' and stories will continue to be told '...some with barely ten words...others rich with language'. While some stories are 'art-driven' others are structured through rythym or language or a combination of both and it is 'these differences, not trends' that, according to Zarbo, 'make a culture' and 'let the best of what we all have to offer come forth'.
It'll End in Tears : Melancholy in Contemporary Australian Picture Books Elizabeth Parsons , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 4 no. 2005; (p. 77-88)
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 5-6)
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Armin Greder Armin Greder , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 5)
Untitled Clare Way , 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 An Ordinary Day Libby Gleeson , 2001 single work picture book
Teaching Tradition Virginia Lowe , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 235 2001; (p. 61-62)
— Review of The Perfect Pet Carol Chataway , 2001 single work picture book ; Mega, Mega, Mates! Guundie Kuchling , 2001 single work picture book ; Nardika Learns to Make a Spear Christopher Fry , 2001 single work non-fiction ; Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; Let's Get a Pup Bob Graham , 2001 single work picture book ; An Ordinary Day Libby Gleeson , 2001 single work picture book
Untitled Virginia Lowe , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies: Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 16 no. 4 2001; (p. 29)
— Review of An Ordinary Day Libby Gleeson , 2001 single work picture book
Picture Book of the Year Wendy Michaels , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 22 no. 4 2002; (p. 22)
— Review of An Ordinary Day Libby Gleeson , 2001 single work picture book ; Horrible Harriet Leigh Hobbs , 2001 single work picture book ; My Dog John Heffernan , 2000 single work picture book ; Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; In My Backyard Nette Hilton , 2001 single work picture book ; The Red Tree Shaun Tan , 2001 single work picture book
Reviews of the Shortlisted Books Relevant to Teenage Readers Jennifer Riggs , Kris Johnstone , Geoff Ferguson , Iain Browning , Jill Midolo , Nicole Crouch , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 10-19)
— Review of Finding Grace Alyssa Brugman , 2001 single work novel ; Forest Sonya Hartnett , 2001 single work novel ; Yoss Odo Hirsch , 2001 single work novel ; Mahalia Joanne Horniman , 2001 single work novel ; Jinx Margaret Wild , 2001 single work novel ; When Dogs Cry Markus Zusak , 2001 single work novel ; A Different Sort of Real : The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919 Kerry Greenwood , 2001 single work children's fiction ; An Ordinary Day Libby Gleeson , 2001 single work picture book ; My Dog John Heffernan , 2000 single work picture book ; In My Backyard Nette Hilton , 2001 single work picture book ; The Red Tree Shaun Tan , 2001 single work picture book ; Soldier Boy : The True Story of Jim Martin the Youngest Anzac Anthony Hill , 2001 single work biography
The Children's Book Council of Australia : Annual Awards 2002 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 2-13)
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Armin Greder Armin Greder , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 5)
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 5-6)
It'll End in Tears : Melancholy in Contemporary Australian Picture Books Elizabeth Parsons , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 4 no. 2005; (p. 77-88)
Imagination and Art Matt Zurbo , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 17 no. 1 2009; (p. 9) Matt Zurbo discusses contrasting styles of storytelling in picture books and refers to the work of Armin Greder, specifically An Ordinary Day and Shaun Tan's The Arrival, as examples of image-based stories that use minimal, or no verbal text as opposed to the 'real life' style Graeme Base re-introduced, or the popularity and longevity of 'rhyming books for young children' inspired by Dr Seuss. He tells of his communication with Armin Greder in regards to one of his own 'text-heavy stories': "My agent sent him the story . His reply was a very thorough, terse letter detailing his obvious passion for stories with minimal text...In short, he let rip at me." While Zurbo admires An Ordinary Day as 'a most beautiful book', he argues that this particular style is still 'just a trend' and stories will continue to be told '...some with barely ten words...others rich with language'. While some stories are 'art-driven' others are structured through rythym or language or a combination of both and it is 'these differences, not trends' that, according to Zarbo, 'make a culture' and 'let the best of what we all have to offer come forth'.
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