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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... vol. 27 no. 2 April 2003 of The Lion and the Unicorn est. 1977 Lion and the Unicorn
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editor's Introduction: Always Facing the Issues - Preoccupations in Australian Children's Literature, John Stephens , single work criticism (p. v-xvii)
Secret Spaces: Creating An Aesthetic of Imaginative Play in Australian Picture Books, Kerry Mallan , single work criticism (p. 167-184)
Note: Link is to author's pre-publication copy, via QUT.
Reading Development Across Linked Stories: Anna Fienberg's Tashi Series and The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels, John Stephens , Izumi Tsukioka , single work criticism (p. 185-198)
'Oh How Different!' : Regimes of Knowledge in Aboriginal Texts for Children, Clare Bradford , single work criticism (p. 199-217)
Poetry in Australia : A Modern Dilemma, Alison Halliday , single work criticism
An examination of Steven Herrick's poetry, as a reflection of the genre, for Australian children at the beginning of this millennium.
 (p. 218-234)
Messages From the Inside? Multiculturalism in Contemporary Children's Literature, Sharyn Pearce , single work criticism
In this article Pearce contends that multiculturalism has been a part of Australia's official discourse for almost thirty years (at time of writing). She claims that the progress of multiculturalism can be traced through books for children and young adults. To support this argument Pearce refers to an article and a chapter by John Stephens on multiculturalism to frame her paper. Initially, Pearce outlines the two main stages of multiculturalism in children's texts identified by Stephens. The first stage contains texts written by authors from the dominant Anglo-Celtic majority and feature focalisers and narrators from that same group. The second stage sees a shift to include characters and narrators from ethnic minority groups which provide an 'insider perspective' but such texts are still usually mediated through Anglo-Celtic authors. Pearce then proposes a third stage in which texts use 'authentic' voices created by authors from minority backgrounds. Rather than focus on aspects of 'difference' the characters' cultural heritage is incidental, rather than pivotal, to their developing subjectivities. The third stage includes texts in which, according to Pearce, ethnicity is not the marker of cultural difference, but an accepted part of Australian life.
 (p. 235-250)
Australian Animation Aesthetics, L. M. Rutherford , single work criticism
Traces an aesthetic tendency in Australian animation for children, a modern development in film studies.
 (p. 251-267)
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