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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 You and Me : Our Place
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'At the edge of a northern Australian city, where river and mangroves reach the sea, two young boys join Uncle Tobias for a day of fishing and hunting.

'Leonie Norrington's beautiful text and Dee Huxley's lush, vibrant illustrations create a world in which the old and new cultures exist comfortably together and children move easily between them.' (Publisher's blurb)

Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources

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Teacher’s notes from publisher’s website.

Notes

  • 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 foods
    • Everyday drinks
    • Bushtucker
    Food practices
    • Eating out - snack
    • Food production
    • Food preparation
    • Food serving
    Gender
    • Food production - male [fishing]
    • Food preparation - female [outdoor fire]
    • Food serving - female
    Signage n/a
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place n/a
    Setting
    • bush/beach/nature
    Food as social cohesion
    • Rituals
    • Social gatherings
    Food as cultural identity
    • Indigenous Australian characters
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Kingswood, Mitcham area, Adelaide - South / South East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Working Title Press , 2007 .
      image of person or book cover 7717944510515748753.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 1876288795, 9781876288792 (hbk.)

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.

Untitled Dianne Bates , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Books Buzz , February no. 7 2009; (p. 6)

— Review of You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
Waltzing As One Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 300 2008; (p. 60-61)

— Review of The Peasant Prince Cunxin Li , 2007 single work picture book ; Wandihnu and the Old Dugong Elizabeth Wymarra , Wandihnu Wymarra , 2007 single work picture book ; You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book ; In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs Roland Harvey , 2007 single work picture book ; Sydney of the Antarctic Coral Tulloch , 2007 single work picture book ; Minnie Pearl : And the Undersea Bazaar Natalie Jane Prior , 2007 single work picture book ; Natemba Annette Lodge , 2007 single work picture book ; Guess Who? Susan Hall , 2007 single work picture book ; Five Little Owls Mark Carthew , 2007 single work picture book
Book Children's Judith Kerr , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 - 10 February 2008; (p. 25)

— Review of You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
Untitled Elspeth Cameron , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 51 no. 4 2007; (p. 21)

— Review of You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
Untitled Frances Atkinson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 July 2007; (p. 32)

— Review of Solo Alyssa Brugman , 2007 single work novel ; You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
[Review] You and Me : Our Place Moira Robinson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 22 no. 3 2007; (p. 31)

— Review of You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
Book Children's Judith Kerr , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 - 10 February 2008; (p. 25)

— Review of You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
Untitled Elspeth Cameron , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 51 no. 4 2007; (p. 21)

— Review of You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book
Waltzing As One Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 300 2008; (p. 60-61)

— Review of The Peasant Prince Cunxin Li , 2007 single work picture book ; Wandihnu and the Old Dugong Elizabeth Wymarra , Wandihnu Wymarra , 2007 single work picture book ; You and Me : Our Place Leonie Robin Norrington , 2007 single work picture book ; In the City : Our Scrapbook of Souvenirs Roland Harvey , 2007 single work picture book ; Sydney of the Antarctic Coral Tulloch , 2007 single work picture book ; Minnie Pearl : And the Undersea Bazaar Natalie Jane Prior , 2007 single work picture book ; Natemba Annette Lodge , 2007 single work picture book ; Guess Who? Susan Hall , 2007 single work picture book ; Five Little Owls Mark Carthew , 2007 single work picture book
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.

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