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Yoshito is leaving Australia to return home to Japan, but he and his friend Ben will miss each other. They come up with a plan for keeping in touch.
Notes
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The text of this picture book is almost identical to that of Fly With Me, but the illustrations and illustrator are different.
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 Japanese character and is set partly in Japan.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Related Works
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Fly with Me
Jane Walker
(illustrator),
Fremantle
:
Sandcastle Books
,
1996
Z841306
1996
single work
picture book
children's
Yoshito is leaving Australia to return home to Japan, but he and his friend Ben will miss each other. They come up with a plan for keeping in touch.
Works about this Work
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Flights of Fantasy? or, Space-Time Compression in Asian-Australian Picture Books
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 18 no. 2 2008; (p. 65-70) Lunt looks at how 'diasporic experiences are negotiated across time and space' (65) in the picture books A Year of Pink Pieces and Old Magic. The analysis looks specifically at 'the ways in which hybridsed space operates as a function of power and subjectivity central to the project of mediating narratives about Asian-Australian diasporic cultures' (65). As a method for interpreting the 'negotiations of space, place and identity in the global passage of peoples and cultures' (69), Lunt takes into consideration the positionings, flows and folds of personal connections made in both texts by focusing on the images of kites and streamers as 'fluid hyphens' that 'make connections between worlds conceived otherwise as separate and distinct' (69). She argues that both texts 'navigate the arbitrary stasis of cultural boundaries' and make it possible 'to conceive the ways in which disaporic connections transcend space and time' through the akcnowledgement of 'multiple registers and negotiations (renegotiations) of space, place, identity and power relations' (69-70).
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Flights of Fantasy? or, Space-Time Compression in Asian-Australian Picture Books
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 18 no. 2 2008; (p. 65-70) Lunt looks at how 'diasporic experiences are negotiated across time and space' (65) in the picture books A Year of Pink Pieces and Old Magic. The analysis looks specifically at 'the ways in which hybridsed space operates as a function of power and subjectivity central to the project of mediating narratives about Asian-Australian diasporic cultures' (65). As a method for interpreting the 'negotiations of space, place and identity in the global passage of peoples and cultures' (69), Lunt takes into consideration the positionings, flows and folds of personal connections made in both texts by focusing on the images of kites and streamers as 'fluid hyphens' that 'make connections between worlds conceived otherwise as separate and distinct' (69). She argues that both texts 'navigate the arbitrary stasis of cultural boundaries' and make it possible 'to conceive the ways in which disaporic connections transcend space and time' through the akcnowledgement of 'multiple registers and negotiations (renegotiations) of space, place, identity and power relations' (69-70).
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cJapan,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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