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'From pizza shop to bora ground, here is a joyous celebration of food, dance and cultural understanding. When three young boys go to a pizza parlour and meet an Aboriginal chef who can speak Italian and make a deadly pizza, they're in for a surprise!' Source: www.allenandunwin.com/ (Sighted 26/05/2011).

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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
    • Featured
    Food types
    • Discretionary foods
    • Discretionary drinks
    • High salt foods
    • Fresh foods
    • Fast food/Takeaway [pizza]
    Food practices
    • Eating in - meal
    • Eating out - snack
    • Food preparation
    Gender
    • Food preparation - female [domestic]
    • Food preparation - male [domestic and professional]
    Signage
    • Shop sign
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place
    • Urban
    Setting
    • Urban landscape
    Food as social cohesion
    • Family meals [dinner]
    Food as cultural identity
    • Non-Anglo characters
    • Indigenous Australian characters
    • Stereotyped ethnicity
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2010 .
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      Scanned by AustLit.
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: col. illus., maps and ports.
      ISBN: 9781741758900 (hbk), 1741758904 (hbk), 9781742377001 (pbk)

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BlackWords : Writers on Identity Anita Heiss , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 2) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

'In the 1960s Oodgeroo Noonuccal (then Kath Walker) hit the literary limelight as Australia’s first published ‘Aboriginal poet’ and since then Aboriginal writers have used their work as a form of self-definition and to defend our rights to our identity. Many authors are inspired by the need to redress historical government definitions of Aboriginality, to reclaim pride in First Nation status, to explain the diversity of Aboriginal experience, and to demonstrate the realities and complexities of ‘being Aboriginal’ in the 21st century.'

Source: Author's introduction.

The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2011 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Childrens' Book Council of Australia , August vol. 55 no. 3 2011; (p. 5-7)
Magic Words Merit First Laureates Deborah Bogle , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 42)
[Review Essay] Shake a Leg Beatrice Murray , Jesse Murray , Lawrence Bamblett , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2011; (p. 113-115)

— Review of Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book

'Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod’s Shake a Leg is an exciting children’s book from a gifted Murri storyteller. It is reviewed here by three members of one Wiradjuri family — an 11-year old school boy (Jesse), a K–12 classroom teacher with experience in tertiary and vocational education (Beatrice) and a researcher (Lawrence), who examine how representations of Aborigines affect community engagement with schools.'  (Introduction)

Reading and Viewing : Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders Texts for Years 7 and 8 Deborah McPherson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 91-92)

— Review of Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book ; Maralinga : The Anangu Story Yalata and Oak Valley Communities , 2009 single work prose ; Playground : Listening to Stories from Country and from Inside the Heart 2011 anthology prose
Imagine If ... Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 2010; (p. 36)

— Review of A Crash of Rhinos Patricia Mullins , 2010 single work picture book ; The Legend of the Golden Snail Graeme Base , 2010 single work picture book ; My Uncle's Donkey Tohby Riddle , 2010 single work picture book ; Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book
[Review] Shake a Leg H. M. Saxby , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 25 no. 4 2010; (p. 8)

— Review of Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book
[Review] Shake a Leg Katharine England , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 October 2010; (p. 23)

— Review of Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book
Monsters, Ned Kelly and Lost Dog... Kyna Das , Hugh McLeod , Tzai-Seng Saylan , Alexandra Bowers , Tom Lakes , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 November 2010; (p. 2)

— Review of Monster Andrew Daddo , 2010 single work picture book ; How Frogmouth Found Her Home Ambelin Kwaymullina , 2010 single work picture book ; Miracle on Separation Street Bob Graham , 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Hunt for Ned Kelly Sophie Masson , 2010 single work children's fiction ; Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book
A selection of reviews, by individual authors, of titles read during the 2010 New South Wales Premier's Reading Challenge.
[Review] Shake a Leg Bec Kavanagh , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 37)

— Review of Shake a Leg Boori Pryor , 2010 single work picture book
Boori's Book Described a 'Must Read' Alf Wilson , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 20 October no. 487 2010; (p. 60)
Engaging to Make a Difference : Opening Young Minds 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Indigenous Newslines , May - July 2011; (p. 10)
Magic Words Merit First Laureates Deborah Bogle , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 42)
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2011 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Childrens' Book Council of Australia , August vol. 55 no. 3 2011; (p. 5-7)
BlackWords : Writers on Identity Anita Heiss , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 2) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

'In the 1960s Oodgeroo Noonuccal (then Kath Walker) hit the literary limelight as Australia’s first published ‘Aboriginal poet’ and since then Aboriginal writers have used their work as a form of self-definition and to defend our rights to our identity. Many authors are inspired by the need to redress historical government definitions of Aboriginality, to reclaim pride in First Nation status, to explain the diversity of Aboriginal experience, and to demonstrate the realities and complexities of ‘being Aboriginal’ in the 21st century.'

Source: Author's introduction.

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