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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Terrible Plop
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'A picture book about a little rabbit who learns that some things in life aren't as scary as they seem. Based on a Tibetan myth, a sound in the forest sets all the animals running for their lives from the Terrible Plop.'

(Source: Publisher's website)

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Unit Suitable For

AC: Foundation (NSW Early Stage 1)

General Capabilities

Literacy

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
    • Storyline
    Food types
    • Everyday foods
    • Discretionary foods
    • High sugar foods
    • Fresh foods
    Food practices n/a
    Gender n/a
    Signage n/a
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place
    • Rural
    Setting
    • Rural landscape
    Food as social cohesion n/a
    Food as cultural identity n/a
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it is based on a Tibetan myth, and has been translated into Chinese.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2009 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 31p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 9780670071418 (hbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Farrar Straus and Giroux ,       2009 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0374374287, 9780374374280
Alternative title: הפלופ האיום
Transliterated title: ha-Flop ha-ayom
Language: Hebrew
    • Or Yehudah,
      c
      Israel,
      c
      Middle East, Asia,      :       Kinneret ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      ISBN: 9789655178524, 9655178528
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Plop! 2009 single work drama children's 'Plop tells the story of a chocolate cake-loving bunny and a big scary bear who go on an action-packed and fun-filled adventure. Featuring rhythm and rhyme, funky tunes and quirky design, this is a story of true bravery when the smallest and most frightened creature of all summons up some rabbit courage to confront the terrible Plop.' Source: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/ (Sighted 10/06/2009).
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Page to Performance : Children's Books Adapted for the Stage Nicola Robinson , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 27 no. 1 2012; (p. 8-11)
Book of the Year: Early Childhood - Short List Books 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 54 no. 3 2010; (p. 8)
— Review of The Wrong Book Nick Bland , 2009 single work picture book ; Fearless Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book ; The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book
In Line For Literary Honours Deborah Bogle , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 July 2010; (p. 16)
Kids' Writers Queue Up for Kudos Katharine England , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 April 2010; (p. 50-51)
[Review] The Terrible Plop Sarah Ellis , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September/October vol. 85 no. 5 2009; (p. 538-539)
— Review of The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book
Under Age Frances Atkinson , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 March 2009; (p. 25)
— Review of The Nest Paul Jennings , 2009 single work novel ; The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book ; The Adventures of Nanny Piggins R. A. Spratt , 2009 single work children's fiction
[Review] The Terrible Plop Katharine England , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 March 2009; (p. 24)
— Review of The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book
Inspiration Below the Surface Madeline Healy , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 - 22 March 2009; (p. 25)
— Review of The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book
Mothers, Monsters and Terrible Plops Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 April 2009; (p. 18)
— Review of My Mother's Eyes : The Story of a Boy Soldier Mark Wilson , 2009 single work picture book ; Harry and Hopper Margaret Wild , 2009 single work picture book ; The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book ; Her Mother's Face Roddy Doyle , 2008 single work picture book ; The Wrong Book Nick Bland , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] The Terrible Plop Candice Cappe , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 88 no. 6 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Terrible Plop Ursula Dubosarsky , 2009 single work picture book
Kids' Writers Queue Up for Kudos Katharine England , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 April 2010; (p. 50-51)
In Line For Literary Honours Deborah Bogle , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 July 2010; (p. 16)
Page to Performance : Children's Books Adapted for the Stage Nicola Robinson , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 27 no. 1 2012; (p. 8-11)
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