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Intended as a series of three picture books. Chew wrote all of the books (and commissioned illustrations for the second and third books), but was unable to find a publisher for the latter two works despite interest from readers.
Source: 'Ahead of Her Time: Sylvia Chew and Little Chiu' by Clare Bradford in Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature. vol.5 no.2-3 August-December 1994, p.80-82
Includes
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1y
Little Chiu : A Series of Stories
Book 1 : Kwong Chiu's New Year Clothes
Jean Elder
(illustrator),
Melbourne
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Murfett
,
1947
Z962627
1947
single work
picture book
children's
Works about this Work
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Ahead of Her Time: Sylvia Chew and 'Little Chiu'
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August-December vol. 5 no. 2-3 1994; (p. 80-82) Bradford documents the life of Chinese-Australian writer Sylvia Chew and highlights what she sees as 'a significant comparison... between the Chinese characters and settings of the book and the predominantly Anglo-Celtic charatcers and settings of picture books of this period' (80). She discusses the series of Little Chiu picture books and the collaboration with Jean Elder in the first book of the series, as well as the frustrations experienced in attempting to have the remainder of the series published. Bradford argues that Chew 'was ahead of her time as a writer representing cultural diversity' however despite the existence of multicultural picture books, Bradford says 'Australia still has a long way to go before it adequately represents children of cultural backgrounds other than Anglo-Celtic' (82).
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Ahead of Her Time: Sylvia Chew and 'Little Chiu'
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August-December vol. 5 no. 2-3 1994; (p. 80-82) Bradford documents the life of Chinese-Australian writer Sylvia Chew and highlights what she sees as 'a significant comparison... between the Chinese characters and settings of the book and the predominantly Anglo-Celtic charatcers and settings of picture books of this period' (80). She discusses the series of Little Chiu picture books and the collaboration with Jean Elder in the first book of the series, as well as the frustrations experienced in attempting to have the remainder of the series published. Bradford argues that Chew 'was ahead of her time as a writer representing cultural diversity' however despite the existence of multicultural picture books, Bradford says 'Australia still has a long way to go before it adequately represents children of cultural backgrounds other than Anglo-Celtic' (82).
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