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y separately published work icon Rainbow Bird single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Rainbow Bird
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Stark and beautiful, Rainbow Bird is a book of rare insight. More than a children's book, or an art book, this is a work of pain, hope, and simple, profound truth. An unseen, unnamed narrator takes us on a journey through fear, uncertainty and despair to hope. Every page challenges us to think and, above all, to feel.' (Publisher's blurb)

Exhibitions

7957836
9563074

Notes

  • Officially launched by J. M. Coetzee at the Jade Monkey, Twin St., Adelaide, South Australia, 8th October 2007.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it uses imagery from the Middle East.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2007 .
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      Extent: 24p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published on the anniversary of the Tampa, 26 August 2007.
      ISBN: 9781862547735

Works about this Work

The Politics of Picture Books : Stories of Displaced Children in Twenty-first-century Australia Mary Tomsic , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 15 no. 2 2018; (p. 339-356)

'This article uses cultural representations to write refugee history. It examines twenty-first-century picture books about displaced children, alongside published responses to them, to explore how refugee experiences and histories are constructed, both for and about children, in an Australian context. The visual literary form of picture books as political texts is examined as a space for discussion and dialogue. Published responses to them, however, more commonly reveal rigid interpretations of imagined readers, invoking binary divisions between displaced and non-displaced children. Through these sources, questions of humanisation and (de)politicisations in refugee history are considered.'  (Publication abstract)

The Arrival of the Rainbow Bird : The Migration Experience in Picture Books Virginia Lowe , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 16 no. 1 2008; (p. 4-5)
Discusses the importance of recent Australian picture books that deal with the topic of refugees and immigrants, and those who ended up in detention centres.
[Review] Rainbow Bird Meredith Capp , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 20)

— Review of Rainbow Bird Czenya Cavouras , 2007 single work picture book
[Review] Rainbow Bird Debra Zott , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 9 - 22 November no. 329 2007; (p. 30)

— Review of Rainbow Bird Czenya Cavouras , 2007 single work picture book
[Review] Rainbow Bird Debra Zott , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 9 - 22 November no. 329 2007; (p. 30)

— Review of Rainbow Bird Czenya Cavouras , 2007 single work picture book
[Review] Rainbow Bird Meredith Capp , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 20)

— Review of Rainbow Bird Czenya Cavouras , 2007 single work picture book
The Arrival of the Rainbow Bird : The Migration Experience in Picture Books Virginia Lowe , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 16 no. 1 2008; (p. 4-5)
Discusses the importance of recent Australian picture books that deal with the topic of refugees and immigrants, and those who ended up in detention centres.
The Politics of Picture Books : Stories of Displaced Children in Twenty-first-century Australia Mary Tomsic , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 15 no. 2 2018; (p. 339-356)

'This article uses cultural representations to write refugee history. It examines twenty-first-century picture books about displaced children, alongside published responses to them, to explore how refugee experiences and histories are constructed, both for and about children, in an Australian context. The visual literary form of picture books as political texts is examined as a space for discussion and dialogue. Published responses to them, however, more commonly reveal rigid interpretations of imagined readers, invoking binary divisions between displaced and non-displaced children. Through these sources, questions of humanisation and (de)politicisations in refugee history are considered.'  (Publication abstract)

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