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'Annabelle's dad says she'll never find fairies in cement and weeds. But Annabelle does. She finds a tiny fairy child. Jethro Byrde, and his family. And together they spend a magical afternoon ..."'
(Source: Back cover)
Notes
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Epigraph: Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: For thereby some have entertained angels unawares. -- Hebrews 13:1-2.
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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
Food types - Everyday drinks
- Discretionary foods
- High sugar foods
- Fast food/Takeaway
Food practices - Eating in - snack
- Parties and Entertaining
- Food selling
- Food preparation
- Food serving
Gender - Food preparation - male [professional]
- Food serving - female
Signage - Shop sign
Positive/negative value n/a Food as sense of place - Domestic
- Urban
- Normalising the fantastical
Setting - Urban landscape
Food as social cohesion - Social gatherings
Food as cultural identity - White Australian characters
Food as character identity n/a Food as language n/a
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 Chinese translation.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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What Are We Feeding Our Children When We Read Them a Book? Depictions of Mothers and Food in Contemporary Australian Picture Books
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mothers and Food : Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives 2016; (p. 232-244)'This chapter explores how Australian writers and illustrators in the twenty-first century depict the act of mothering in picture books for young children in relation to cooking and serving food. It draws on the idea that children’s texts can be understood as sites of cultural production and reproduction, with social conventions and ideologies embedded in their narrative representations. The analysis is based on a survey of 124 books that were shortlisted for, or won, Children’s Book Council of Australia awards between 2001 and 2013. Of the eighty-seven titles that contain food and have human or anthropomorphised characters, twenty-six (30 percent) contain textual or illustrative references to maternal figures involved in food preparation or provision. Examination of this data set reveals that there is a strong correlation between non-Anglo-Australian maternal figures and home-cooked meals, and a clear link between Anglo-Australian mothers and sugar-rich snacks. The relative paucity of depictions of ethnically unmarked mothers offering more nutritious foods is notable given the cultural expectations of mothers as caretakers of their children’s well-being. At the same time, the linking of non-Anglo-Australian mothers with home-cooked meals can be seen as a means of signifying a cultural authenticity, a closeness to the earth that is differentiated from the normalised Australian culture represented in picture books. This suggests an unintended alignment of mothers preparing and serving meals with “otherness,” which creates a distancing effect between meals that may generally be considered nutritious and the normalised self. I contend there are unexamined, and perhaps unexpected, cultural assumptions about ethnicity, motherhood, and food embedded in contemporary Australian picture books. These have the potential to inscribe a system of beliefs about gender, cultural identity, and food that contributes to readers’ understanding of the world and themselves.'
Source: Abstract.
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The Return of the Fairy : Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 115-132) -
Entertaining Strangers
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 289 2007; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book ; The Arrival 2006 single work graphic novel Stephanie Owen Reeder looks at authors whose books (primarily for children) address a rise in xenophobia in Australian society. She focuses particularly on Bob Graham's Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child and Shaun Tan's The Arrival. -
Picturing Parenting in the Words and illustrations of Bob Graham
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: CREArTA : Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts , vol. 6 no. 2006; (p. 75-82) -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 24 no. 3 2004; (p. 37)
— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book
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Untitled
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 18)
— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book -
Children's Book Council of Australia : Review of Short-Listed Books 2003
2003
single work
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 -
Prize Pick
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 July 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of The Potato People 2001 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat 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 Heidi Maier surveys the nominations for the Best Picture Book category of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards and gives her judgement on which book deserves to win the 2003 award. -
Young Reviewers of the Year
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 August 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 24 no. 3 2004; (p. 37)
— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child 2002 single work picture book -
Author Throws Book at PM
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 July 2003; (p. 6) Reports on Bob Graham's decision to donate the money he received as the winner of the 2003 Kate Greenaway Medal to the aid of refugeees in Australia and England. - Speech by Bob Graham Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2002 2003 single work column
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The Magic of Bob Graham
Hilary Adams
(interviewer),
2003
single work
interview
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 6 2003; (p. 9-11) -
Whimsy, with a Tender Edge
2004
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 6 March 2004; (p. 3) -
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)