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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Grandpa's Mask
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'This is a children's picture book about a young Chinese girl who shares a love for the Chinese opera with her grandfather. Now that her family is in Australia and she can no longer watch the opera on television, she decides to create her own opera mask - on her grandfather's face while he is sleeping. The author wrote this story at 12 years of age, when she won a national creative writing competition with it.' (Source: Google Books)

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Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains Chinese characters.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Olinda, Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Benchmark , 2001 .
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      Extent: 30p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 1876615052

Works about this Work

Cross-Generational Negotiations : Asian-Australian Picture Books Clare Bradford , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 36-42)

Clare Bradford discusses a number of picture books and a junior novel in which the narratives are structured around interactions between Asian-Australian children and their grandparents; Grandpa and Ah Gong (Xiangyi Mo and Morag Loh, 1995), Old Magic (Alan Baillie, 1996), Grandpa's Mask (Di Wu and Jing Jing Guo, 2001), What a Mess Fang Fang! (Sally Rippin, 1998). She proposes that these texts provide an opportunity to introduce 'ideas around change, continuity and cultural meanings' to young readers through their specific focus on 'the everyday experiences of growing up in a multicultural society' (36). As children's texts 'habitually hinge upon narratives of growth and development' (36) Bradford points out that crosscultural and cross-generational relations between grandparents and their grandchildren are often informed by 'different experiences and perspective that are negotiated through external objects, artefacts and markings' (37). There is an emphasis on 'making' in the texts, that Bradford reads, in terms of multicultural discourse, as suggestive of Stevenson's notion that cultural citizens 'construct themselves...by learning to move within multiple and diverse communities' (41). Bradford's analysis points to the 'limitations of the picture book form' in 'representing the social and cultural complexities of diasporic experience' (41); however, she also sees these texts as speaking to children's literature more generally through 'a surplus of meaning, an excess of signification that seeks to provide pleasure while socializing young citizens' (41).

Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 19)

— Review of Grandpa's Mask Guo Jing Jing , 2001 single work picture book
The Eclectic Picture Book Jody Fickes Shapiro , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 234 2001; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Grandpa's Mask Guo Jing Jing , 2001 single work picture book ; Hello Baby Jenni Overend , 1999 single work picture book ; My Dog John Heffernan , 2000 single work picture book ; Joseph Anna Fienberg , 2001 single work picture book
CoverNotes Mike Shuttleworth , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 July 2001; (p. 11) The West Australian , 14 July 2001; (p. 8)

— Review of Grandpa's Mask Guo Jing Jing , 2001 single work picture book ; Scam Jenny Pausacker , 2001 single work children's fiction
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 19)

— Review of Grandpa's Mask Guo Jing Jing , 2001 single work picture book
CoverNotes Mike Shuttleworth , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 July 2001; (p. 11) The West Australian , 14 July 2001; (p. 8)

— Review of Grandpa's Mask Guo Jing Jing , 2001 single work picture book ; Scam Jenny Pausacker , 2001 single work children's fiction
The Eclectic Picture Book Jody Fickes Shapiro , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 234 2001; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Grandpa's Mask Guo Jing Jing , 2001 single work picture book ; Hello Baby Jenni Overend , 1999 single work picture book ; My Dog John Heffernan , 2000 single work picture book ; Joseph Anna Fienberg , 2001 single work picture book
Cross-Generational Negotiations : Asian-Australian Picture Books Clare Bradford , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 36-42)

Clare Bradford discusses a number of picture books and a junior novel in which the narratives are structured around interactions between Asian-Australian children and their grandparents; Grandpa and Ah Gong (Xiangyi Mo and Morag Loh, 1995), Old Magic (Alan Baillie, 1996), Grandpa's Mask (Di Wu and Jing Jing Guo, 2001), What a Mess Fang Fang! (Sally Rippin, 1998). She proposes that these texts provide an opportunity to introduce 'ideas around change, continuity and cultural meanings' to young readers through their specific focus on 'the everyday experiences of growing up in a multicultural society' (36). As children's texts 'habitually hinge upon narratives of growth and development' (36) Bradford points out that crosscultural and cross-generational relations between grandparents and their grandchildren are often informed by 'different experiences and perspective that are negotiated through external objects, artefacts and markings' (37). There is an emphasis on 'making' in the texts, that Bradford reads, in terms of multicultural discourse, as suggestive of Stevenson's notion that cultural citizens 'construct themselves...by learning to move within multiple and diverse communities' (41). Bradford's analysis points to the 'limitations of the picture book form' in 'representing the social and cultural complexities of diasporic experience' (41); however, she also sees these texts as speaking to children's literature more generally through 'a surplus of meaning, an excess of signification that seeks to provide pleasure while socializing young citizens' (41).

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