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Adventurous Bear and practical Chook make unlikely friends, who together spend a day dreaming and acting out what jobs they think they'd like to have when they grow up. (Libraries Australia record).
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Notes
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This is affiliated with Dr Laurel Cohn's Picture Book Diet because it contains representations of food and/or food practices.
Food depiction - Incidental
- Featured
Food types - Everyday foods
Food practices - Eating in - meal
- Eating in - snack
Gender n/a Signage n/a Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place n/a Setting - Domestic interior
Food as social cohesion n/a Food as cultural identity n/a Food as character identity n/a Food as language - Food metaphors and similes
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Korean translation.
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Children’s books are reread and remembered over a lifetime, and many authors believe their best writing is for children.
Rereading favourites is a good thing. With each rereading, deeper meanings emerge and understanding becomes richer.' (Introduction)
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2002
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 46 no. 2 2002; (p. 15-16)
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Picture Perfect
2002
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Untitled
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 46 no. 2 2002; (p. 15-16)
— Review of Bear and Chook 2002 single work picture book -
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review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 5 2003; (p. 6-17)
— Review of The Girl from the Sea 2002 single work novel ; Painted Love Letters 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Song of an Innocent Bystander 2002 single work novel ; Walking Naked 2002 single work novel ; Njunjul the Sun 2002 single work novel ; The Messenger 2002 single work novel ; Where in the World 2002 single work children's fiction ; Rain May and Captain Daniel 2002 single work children's fiction ; Horrendo's Curse 2002 single work children's fiction ; Tom Jones Saves the World 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Barrumbi Kids 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Potato People 2001 single work picture book ; Guess the Baby 2002 single work picture book ; Too Loud Lily 2002 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm 2002 single work picture book ; Bear and Chook 2002 single work picture book ; Playmates 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book ; Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book ; In Flanders Fields 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat 2002 single work picture book ; Awesome! : Australian Art for Contemporary Kids 2002 single work information book ; The Mighty Murray 2002 single work non-fiction ; Discover and Learn About Australian Forests and Woodlands 2002 single work information book ; Iron in the Blood : Convicts and Commandants in Colonial Australia 2002 single work information book ; Black Snake : The Daring of Ned Kelly 2002 single work biography ; Endangered! Working to Save Animals at Risk 2002 single work information book -
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2002
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 17 no. 1 2002; (p. 26)
— Review of Bear and Chook 2002 single work picture book -
Picture Perfect
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 August-1 September 2002; (p. 11)
— Review of The Moon in the Man 2002 selected work poetry ; Bear and Chook 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday 2002 single work picture book ; Wishbone 2002 single work picture book ; Jirrbal : Rainforest Dreamtime Stories 2001 selected work prose autobiography -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2003
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 2-12) -
10 Great Books That All Children Should Read
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 21 December 2015;'The books we remember strongly as adults are often the ones we read as children. Not only do we remember particular books, but the emotions we experienced.
Children’s books are reread and remembered over a lifetime, and many authors believe their best writing is for children.
Rereading favourites is a good thing. With each rereading, deeper meanings emerge and understanding becomes richer.' (Introduction)
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