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y The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon single work picture book children's

Author:agent Aaron Blabey
Illustrator: Aaron Blabey

Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon

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'No matter what hour, she lurked looking sour, be it midnight or mid-afternoon. Her dresses were shabby, her mood always crabby. Her name was Miss Annabel Spoon. Life is cursed for the people of the village of Twee.

'The ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon haunts their every waking hour and they've had enough! But then one day, the brave and practical young Herbert Kettle has the most extraordinary idea ...' (From the publisher's website.)

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 Discretionary foods High sugar foods
Food practices	Eating in - meal Eating out - snack Food production Food preparation
Gender	Food production - female Food production - male Food preparation - female [domestic] Food preparation - male [professional]
Signage	n/a
Positive/negative value	n/a
Food as sense of place	Normalising the fantastical
Setting	Domestic interior Urban landscape
Food as social cohesion	Family meals [dinner] Social gatherings Relationships
Food as cultural identity	White Australian characters
Food as character identity	Food names [Annabel Spoon and Herbert Kettle]
Food as language	n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Publisher: Viking

Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2011 .

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Extent: 1v. (unpaged)p.
Description: col. illus.

Note/s:

Publication date: 3 October 2011.

ISBN: 9780670074747 (hbk.)
Publisher: Penguin

Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2013 .

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Image courtesy of publisher's website.

Extent: 1 vol.p.
Description: col. illus.
Reprinted: 2014
ISBN: 9780143506218, 0143506218

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The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Written and Illustrated by Aaron Blabey Vicki Stanton , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2011;
— Review of The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Aaron Blabey , 2011 single work picture book

Review : The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon H. M. Saxby , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Aaron Blabey , 2011 single work picture book

[Review] : The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Moira Robinson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 26 no. 5 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Aaron Blabey , 2011 single work picture book

Review : The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Andrew Wrathall , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 91 no. 3 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon Aaron Blabey , 2011 single work picture book