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y separately published work icon A Country Far Away single work   picture book   children's  
Is part of Picture Puffins series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 A Country Far Away
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Parallel pictures reveal the essential similarities between the lives of two boys, one in a western country, one in a tribal African village.

Exhibitions

Notes

  • This work has also been translated into French, German, Dutch and Danish.
  • Winner of the Christian Media Children's Book Prize, France; the Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year, USA; the NSCC/CBS Notable Children's Book, USA; and the Children's Book Foundation Book of the Year, UK.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Hindi translation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Andersen ,
      1988 .
      Extent: 27p.
      Edition info: "An Andersen giant"
      Description: col. illus.
      Reprinted: 1998
      ISBN: 0862642043
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Puffin ,
      1988 .
      image of person or book cover 8335321706473051526.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 30p.
      Description: chiefly col. illus.
      Reprinted: 1990
      Note/s:
      • Part of Picture Puffins series.
      ISBN: 0140509542 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Orchard Books ,
      1989 .
      Extent: 31p.
      Edition info: 1st US ed.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0531083926
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Vivid Publishing , 2012 .
      image of person or book cover 3807325058954949053.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 28p.p.
      ISBN: 9780980876024
Alternative title: Dúr daraj ek mulk
Language: Urdu , English
    • Middlesex,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Magi ,
      1988 .
      Extent: 28p.
      ISBN: 1870271246

Works about this Work

The Dangers of Reading Globally Kathy G. Short , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 57 no. 2 2019; (p. 1-11)

'This article is based on a keynote delivered at the 36th IBBY International Congress in Athens, Greece, on August 31, 2018. IBBY members are committed to the potentials offered by global literature for opening minds to multiple ways of living in the world and creating intercultural understanding. Asking readers to read outside their comfort zones, however, can instead hold danger and perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings. This article proposes that we can address these dangers through acting on our social responsibilities as bookmakers, readers, and educators to balance individual voice with group responsibility and to determine if our actions could cause harm to readers’ understandings of a culture.' (Publication abstract)

A Similarity or Difference : The Problem of Race in Australian Picture Books Victoria Flanagan , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , April vol. 51 no. 2 2013; (p. 13-22)
'The prevailing humanist ideology in fiction produced for children entails that thematic explorations of race usually pivot on the notion that humans are all created equal, regardless of race. However, this position fails to acknowledge the privileged status of whiteness as a racial category. This article examines two recent Australian picture books which explore the relationship between white and non-white identities in an Australian social context, arguing that the construction of whiteness as a normative standard of human experience must be interrogated before genuinely intersubjective race relations can be achieved.' (Author's abstract)
A Similarity or Difference : The Problem of Race in Australian Picture Books Victoria Flanagan , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , April vol. 51 no. 2 2013; (p. 13-22)
'The prevailing humanist ideology in fiction produced for children entails that thematic explorations of race usually pivot on the notion that humans are all created equal, regardless of race. However, this position fails to acknowledge the privileged status of whiteness as a racial category. This article examines two recent Australian picture books which explore the relationship between white and non-white identities in an Australian social context, arguing that the construction of whiteness as a normative standard of human experience must be interrogated before genuinely intersubjective race relations can be achieved.' (Author's abstract)
The Dangers of Reading Globally Kathy G. Short , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 57 no. 2 2019; (p. 1-11)

'This article is based on a keynote delivered at the 36th IBBY International Congress in Athens, Greece, on August 31, 2018. IBBY members are committed to the potentials offered by global literature for opening minds to multiple ways of living in the world and creating intercultural understanding. Asking readers to read outside their comfort zones, however, can instead hold danger and perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings. This article proposes that we can address these dangers through acting on our social responsibilities as bookmakers, readers, and educators to balance individual voice with group responsibility and to determine if our actions could cause harm to readers’ understandings of a culture.' (Publication abstract)

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