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'Meet Rex. He is the class pet. Every day, someone gets to take Rex home. What would you do if Rex came to visit you?' (Publisher's blurb)

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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	Discretionary foods High fat foods High salt foods Fast food/Takeaway [hamburgers]
Food practices	Eating out - meal Eating out - snack
Gender	n/a
Signage	n/a
Positive/negative value	n/a
Food as sense of place	Urban Normalising the fantastical
Setting	n/a
Food as social cohesion	Social gatherings Relationships
Food as cultural identity	White Australian characters
Food as character identity	Imagining food
Food as language	n/a

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The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2006 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 50 no. 3 2006; (p. 8-14)

Untitled Anne Hanzl , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 20 no. 5 2005; (p. 28)
— Review of Rex Ursula Dubosarsky , 2005 single work picture book

Simple Rules for Kids Meg Sorensen , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 November 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of Rex Ursula Dubosarsky , 2005 single work picture book ; Kisses for Daddy Frances Watts , 2005 single work picture book

CoverNotes Lucy Sussex , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 23 October 2005; (p. 21)
— Review of Rex Ursula Dubosarsky , 2005 single work picture book