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Title details for Stay for Dinner by Sandhya Parappukkaran - Available

Stay for Dinner

by Sandhya Parappukkaran
Michelle Pereira
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Stay for Dinner is a powerful story from multi-award-winning creators of The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name that celebrates culture and connection through food.
Reshma loves dinnertime with her family. Her family eat with their hands – not just finger food type–eating, but hands-on squishy eating. When she's invited to stay for dinner at her friends' homes, she finds out that they all eat in different ways. Some go ting ting with their cutlery, and others go click clack with their chopsticks.
What will her friends say when they see her family eat with their hands?
★ WINNER of the 2024 Multicultural NSW Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards ★
★ 2024 CBCA Notable Picture Book of the Year ★
★ A Bookstagram Best Picture Book of 2023 ★
★ Longlisted for the inaugural DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children's Book Award ★
'Stay for Dinner is a requirement on every bookshelf as a resource that teaches vital social skills and cultural appreciation—it's a salve for everyday anxieties any child may feel in regards to fitting in with their peers. This picture book is a wonderful revelation of the true diversity evident within Australia.' – Books+Publishing

'The words and images [in Stay for Dinner] combine perfectly like a feast. This is an important book about many more things than food. It highlights the importance of family, friendship, community, diversity, and acceptance—as well as delicious cuisine. Stay for Dinner is a keeper, to be read over and over again, just for the fun of it.' – Children's Book Council Australia


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  • Release date

    May 17, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781743589731

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Books+Publishing

      March 28, 2023
      If ever Australian publishers needed inspiration to produce more diverse picture books written by own voices authors, Sandhya Parappukkaran’s Stay for Dinner is a perfect example. It is an entertaining story laden with representations of Kerala Indian, Italian, Asian and Australian cultures. Parappukkaran’s use of literary devices such as onomatopoeia, imagery and alliteration—‘ting-ting’, ‘click-clack’, ‘sauce splashes’ and ‘I blush like a banana blossom’—creates a fun and energetic tale about a young girl’s worries when it comes to sharing food and culture with friends. With images crafted by award-winning illustrator Michelle Pereira, Stay for Dinner is such a visually pleasing book, with colourful images of sadhya on bright green leaves and gold-embroidered kurtas. The vivid depictions of food reminded me of sending my own children to school with zaatar or labne flatbread rolls. Such an act would have me worrying about whether or not they would get teased as I had in the early 80s. In this way, Stay for Dinner is a requirement on every bookshelf as a resource that teaches vital social skills and cultural appreciation—it's a salve for everyday anxieties any child may feel in regards to fitting in with their peers. This picture book is a wonderful revelation of the true diversity evident within Australia.

Formats

  • OverDrive Read

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  • English

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