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y separately published work icon Baby Shark : Adventure Down Under single work   picture book   children's  
Note: Written and illustrated by Penguin Random House Australia 
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Baby Shark : Adventure Down Under
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'Based on everyone's favourite song, join our own pygmy shark for a swim in the oceans of Australia. Who will Baby Shark meet and will Baby Shark make it home safely?' (Publication summary)

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Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties? Writing about Sharks in Australia Donna Lee Brien , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , vol. 24 no. 5 2021;

'Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media (Le Busque et al., “An Analysis”). My own research into representations of surfing and sharks in Australian writing (Brien) has, however, revealed that, although reporting of shark sightings and human-shark interactions are prominent in the news, and sharks function as vivid and commanding images and metaphors in art and writing (Ellis; Westbrook et al.), little scholarship has investigated their representation in Australian books published for a general readership.' (Introduction)

Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties? Writing about Sharks in Australia Donna Lee Brien , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , vol. 24 no. 5 2021;

'Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media (Le Busque et al., “An Analysis”). My own research into representations of surfing and sharks in Australian writing (Brien) has, however, revealed that, although reporting of shark sightings and human-shark interactions are prominent in the news, and sharks function as vivid and commanding images and metaphors in art and writing (Ellis; Westbrook et al.), little scholarship has investigated their representation in Australian books published for a general readership.' (Introduction)

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