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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'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

  • Epigraph: Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: For thereby some have entertained angels unawares. -- Hebrews 13:1-2.
  • 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

  • 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

    • Cambridge, Massachusetts,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Candlewick Press ,
      2002 .
      Alternative title: Jethro Byrd : Fairy Child
      ISBN: 0763617725
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Walker Books [London] ,
      2002 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy of Walker Books.
      Extent: 31p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0744588634
Alternative title: 漢堡小精靈
Transliterated title: han bao xiao jing ling
Language: Chinese
    • Taipei,
      c
      Taiwan,
      c
      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Grimm Press Ltd ,
      2004 .
      image of person or book cover 1111752539755063991.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: unpagedp.
      ISBN: 9577456456, 9789577456458

Works about this Work

What Are We Feeding Our Children When We Read Them a Book? Depictions of Mothers and Food in Contemporary Australian Picture Books Laurel Cohn , 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.

The Return of the Fairy : Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young Clare Bradford , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 115-132)
Entertaining Strangers Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 289 2007; (p. 66-67)

— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child Bob Graham , 2002 single work picture book ; The Arrival Shaun Tan , 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 Margot Hillel , 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 Bob Graham , 2002 single work picture book
Untitled Sue Clancy , 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 Bob Graham , 2002 single work picture book
Children's Book Council of Australia : Review of Short-Listed Books 2003 Wendy Michaels , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 5 2003; (p. 6-17)

— Review of The Girl from the Sea James Aldridge , 2002 single work novel ; Painted Love Letters Catherine Bateson , 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Song of an Innocent Bystander Ian Bone , 2002 single work novel ; Walking Naked Alyssa Brugman , 2002 single work novel ; Njunjul the Sun Meme McDonald , Boori Pryor , 2002 single work novel ; The Messenger Markus Zusak , 2002 single work novel ; Where in the World Simon French , 2002 single work children's fiction ; Rain May and Captain Daniel Catherine Bateson , 2002 single work children's fiction ; Horrendo's Curse Anna Fienberg , 2002 single work children's fiction ; Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Martine Murray , 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Barrumbi Kids Leonie Robin Norrington , 2002 single work children's fiction ; The Potato People Pamela Allen , 2001 single work picture book ; Guess the Baby Simon French , 2002 single work picture book ; Too Loud Lily Sofie Laguna , 2002 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm Penny Matthews , 2002 single work picture book ; Bear and Chook Lisa Shanahan , 2002 single work picture book ; Playmates Jane Tanner , 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday Leigh Hobbs , 2002 single work picture book ; Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child Bob Graham , 2002 single work picture book ; In Flanders Fields Norman Jorgensen , 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat Jackie French , 2002 single work picture book ; Awesome! : Australian Art for Contemporary Kids Laura Murray Cree , 2002 single work information book ; The Mighty Murray John Nicholson , 2002 single work non-fiction ; Discover and Learn About Australian Forests and Woodlands Pat Slater , 2002 single work information book ; Iron in the Blood : Convicts and Commandants in Colonial Australia Alan R. Tucker , 2002 single work information book ; Black Snake : The Daring of Ned Kelly Carole Wilkinson , 2002 single work biography ; Endangered! Working to Save Animals at Risk Rick Wilkinson , 2002 single work information book
Prize Pick Heidi Maier , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 July 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of The Potato People Pamela Allen , 2001 single work picture book ; A Year on Our Farm Penny Matthews , 2002 single work picture book ; Diary of a Wombat Jackie French , 2002 single work picture book ; Old Tom's Holiday Leigh Hobbs , 2002 single work picture book ; Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child Bob Graham , 2002 single work picture book ; In Flanders Fields Norman Jorgensen , 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 Halle Johnson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 August 2003; (p. 4)

— Review of Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child Bob Graham , 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 Bob Graham , 2002 single work picture book
Author Throws Book at PM Michelle Griffin , 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 Bob Graham , 2003 single work column
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 Rebecca Lancashire , 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)
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