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y separately published work icon Mr Chicken Goes to Paris single work   picture book   children's  
Is part of Mr Chicken Leigh Hobbs , 2014 series - author children's fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Mr Chicken Goes to Paris
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'Mr Chicken has taken up his friend Yvette's invitation to visit Paris. As they journey together through the City of Love, Mr Chicken is overcome by the magic of all the city has to offer - and the inhabitants of this most stylish city don't quite know what to make of him. Mr Chicken will delight children of all ages.' (From the publisher's website.)

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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
    • Everyday foods
    • Processed foods
    Food practices
    • Eating out - meal
    • Eating out - snack
    • Food serving
    Gender
    • Food serving - male
    Signage n/a
    Positive/negative value n/a
    Food as sense of place
    • Urban
    Setting n/a
    Food as social cohesion
    • Rituals
    • Social gatherings
    • Relationships
    Food as cultural identity
    • White Australian characters
    • Stereotyped ethnicity
    Food as character identity n/a
    Food as language n/a

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2009 .
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      Alternative title: Monsieur Poulet va ̀Paris
      Extent: 1v. (unpaged)p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:

      • Published August 2009

      ISBN: 9781741757699 (hbk.)
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2009 .
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      Extent: 32 p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 1st 2009
      ISBN: 9781741768084
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Bloomsbury ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 32 p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:

      • Published 10 September 2010

      ISBN: 9781408805244, 1408805243
    • East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Allen and Unwin , 2011 .
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      Extent: 1 v.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 9781742378350 (pbk.), 1742378358 (pbk.)
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Mr Chicken Goes to Paris Kellie Mackereth , Leigh Hobbs , 2012 single work drama children's Come abroad with the riotous Mr. Chicken as he tours the magnifique sights of Paris with his friend Yvette! Paris becomes a city of magic for Mr. Chicken as he discovers if he has what it takes to navigate the perils of flying economy, travelling on the Metro and learning a foreign language. But what will the Parisians make of Yvette's enormous fowl friend? Will this top-hatted tourist become the most astonishing spectacle of all? Source: http://www.nida.edu.au/ (Sighted 27/03/2012).
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— Appears in: The Lion and the Unicorn , January vol. 36 no. 1 2012; (p. 56-74) 'The city and the urban condition, popular subjects of art, literature, and film, have been commonly represented as fragmented, isolating, violent, with silent crowds moving through the hustle and bustle of a noisy, polluted cityspace. Included in this diverse artistic field is children's literature—an area of creative and critical inquiry that continues to play a central role in illuminating and shaping perceptions of the city, of city lifestyles, and of the people who traverse the urban landscape. Fiction's textual representations of cities, its sites and sights, lifestyles and characters have drawn on traditions of realist, satirical, and fantastic writing to produce the protean urban story—utopian, dystopian, visionary, satirical—with the goal of offering an account or critique of the contemporary city and the urban condition. In writing about cities and urban life, children's literature variously locates the child in relation to the social (urban) space. This dialogic relation between subject and social space has been at the heart of writings about/of the flâneur: a figure who experiences modes of being in the city as it transforms under the influences of modernism and postmodernism. Within this context of a changing urban ontology brought about by (post)modern styles and practices, this article examines five contemporary picture books: The Cows Are Going to Paris by David Kirby and Allen Woodman; Ooh-la-la (Max in love) by Maira Kalman; Mr Chicken Goes to Paris and Old Tom's Holiday by Leigh Hobbs; and The Empty City by David Megarrity. I investigate the possibility of these texts reviving the act of flânerie, but in a way that enables different modes of being a flâneur, a neo-flâneur. I suggest that the neo-flâneur retains some of the characteristics of the original flâneur, but incorporates others that take account of the changes wrought by postmodernity and globalization, particularly tourism and consumption. The dual issue at the heart of the discussion is that tourism and consumption as agents of cultural globalization offer a different way of thinking about the phenomenon of flânerie. While the flâneur can be regarded as the precursor to the tourist, the discussion considers how different modes of flânerie, such as the tourist-flâneur, are an inevitable outcome of commodification of the activities that accompany strolling through the (post)modern urban space' (Author's abstract).
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— Appears in: The Lion and the Unicorn , January vol. 36 no. 1 2012; (p. 56-74) 'The city and the urban condition, popular subjects of art, literature, and film, have been commonly represented as fragmented, isolating, violent, with silent crowds moving through the hustle and bustle of a noisy, polluted cityspace. Included in this diverse artistic field is children's literature—an area of creative and critical inquiry that continues to play a central role in illuminating and shaping perceptions of the city, of city lifestyles, and of the people who traverse the urban landscape. Fiction's textual representations of cities, its sites and sights, lifestyles and characters have drawn on traditions of realist, satirical, and fantastic writing to produce the protean urban story—utopian, dystopian, visionary, satirical—with the goal of offering an account or critique of the contemporary city and the urban condition. In writing about cities and urban life, children's literature variously locates the child in relation to the social (urban) space. This dialogic relation between subject and social space has been at the heart of writings about/of the flâneur: a figure who experiences modes of being in the city as it transforms under the influences of modernism and postmodernism. Within this context of a changing urban ontology brought about by (post)modern styles and practices, this article examines five contemporary picture books: The Cows Are Going to Paris by David Kirby and Allen Woodman; Ooh-la-la (Max in love) by Maira Kalman; Mr Chicken Goes to Paris and Old Tom's Holiday by Leigh Hobbs; and The Empty City by David Megarrity. I investigate the possibility of these texts reviving the act of flânerie, but in a way that enables different modes of being a flâneur, a neo-flâneur. I suggest that the neo-flâneur retains some of the characteristics of the original flâneur, but incorporates others that take account of the changes wrought by postmodernity and globalization, particularly tourism and consumption. The dual issue at the heart of the discussion is that tourism and consumption as agents of cultural globalization offer a different way of thinking about the phenomenon of flânerie. While the flâneur can be regarded as the precursor to the tourist, the discussion considers how different modes of flânerie, such as the tourist-flâneur, are an inevitable outcome of commodification of the activities that accompany strolling through the (post)modern urban space' (Author's abstract).
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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