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y Little Elephants single work picture book children's

Author:agent Graeme Base
Illustrator: Graeme Base

Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Little Elephants

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'The wheat is ripe, but the harvester is broken and a plague of locusts is on the way. It looks as if Jim and his mother may lose the farm. But when Jim show kindness to a stranger, their fortunes are set to change in the most surprising way imaginable!' (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 Featured Storyline
Food types	Everyday foods Everyday drinks Discretionary foods High sugar foods Fresh foods
Food practices	Eating in - snack Food production
Gender	Food production - female
Signage	n/a
Positive/negative value	n/a
Food as sense of place	Domestic Rural
Setting	Rural landscape Normalising the fantastical
Food as social cohesion	n/a
Food as cultural identity	White Australian characters
Food as character identity	n/a
Food as language	n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Publisher: Viking

Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2012 .

Image courtesy of Penguin Books Australia.

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

Note/s:

Publication date: 26 September 2012.

ISBN: 9780670076475 (hbk.)
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers

New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,: Abrams Books for Young Readers , 2012 .

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Extent: 1v. (unpaged)p.
Description: col. illus.
ISBN: 9781419704635
Publisher: Penguin

Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2016 .

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Cover image courtesy of publisher.

Extent: 40p.

Note/s:

Published 18 April 2016.

ISBN: 9780143507253

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[Review] Little Elephants David Murphy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 57 no. 1 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Little Elephants Graeme Base , 2012 single work picture book

Moving Pictures Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 December 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Monsieur Albert Rides to Glory Pete Smith , 2012 single work picture book ; Little Elephants Graeme Base , 2012 single work picture book ; Good Night, Sleep Tight Mem Fox , 2012 single work picture book ; Queen Victoria's Christmas Jackie French , 2012 single work picture book

Thresholds Joy Lawn , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2012 - January 2013 no. 347 2012; (p. 70-71)
— Review of Unforgotten Tohby Riddle , 2012 single work picture book ; Peggy : A Brave Chicken on a Big Adventure Anna Walker , 2012 single work picture book ; Little Elephants Graeme Base , 2012 single work picture book ; Tree : A Little Story about Big Things Danny Parker , 2012 single work picture book

[Review] Little Elephants Joy Lawn , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 28)
— Review of Little Elephants Graeme Base , 2012 single work picture book

[Review] Little Elephants Margaret Hamilton , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August/September vol. 92 no. 1 2012; (p. 13)
— Review of Little Elephants Graeme Base , 2012 single work picture book