Cuthbert's Babies
{{Short description|Children's Book by Pamela Allen}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Cuthbert's Babies
| image = Cuthbert's Babies.jpg| caption = Front cover, designed by Pamela Allen
| alt = A baby bed is shown, with lots of babies crying, and a little child is shown next to the bed.
| author = Pamela Allen
| illustrator = Pamela Allen
| cover_artist = Pamela Allen
| country = Australia
| language = English
| genre = Children's book
| published = 2003
| publisher = Penguin Books Australia
| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = unpaginated (28)
| awards = 2004 New Zealand Post Book Award
| isbn = 978-0143500858
| oclc =
}}
Cuthbert's Babies is a 2003 children's picture book written and illustrated by Pamela Allen. Published by Penguin Books Australia, It is about a boy who resents the arrival of baby quadruplets and how he accepts them.
Reception
Cuthbert's Babies has been reviewed by Reading Time{{cite journal |date=August 2003 |title=Cuthbert's Babies (Book)|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/10717591/cuthberts-babies-book |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616154737/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/10717591/cuthberts-babies-book |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-06-16 |journal=Reading Time |publisher=Children's Book Council of Australia |volume=47 |issue=3 |page=29 |accessdate=20 May 2016}} and Good Reading magazine that wrote "Although not remarkable, this is another solid book from a favourite Australian author/illustrator."{{cite journal |date=June 2003 |title=Cuthbert's Babies |url=http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/book_details.cfm?book=512&page=15 |journal=Good Reading Magazine |page=15 |accessdate=20 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502125951/http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/book_details.cfm?book=512&page=15 |archivedate=2 May 2012 }} while The New Zealand Herald called it "a hilarious tale".{{cite news |last=Vinicombe |first=Dorothy |date=16 March 2004 |title=Pamela Allen: Cuthbert's Babies |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3555038 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=20 May 2016}}
Miyuki Hisaoka in discussing "social roles within a family structure" noted that "Cuthbert's Babies arrives at an analogous conclusion, with Cuthbert and his mother lying on his bed reading a book together in a reprise of the opening page" and "that readers can align with Cuthbert's feeling of alienation without particularly empathizing with him".{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKhnXxwhb4UC&dq=Cuthbert's+babies+by+pamela+allen&pg=PA66 |title=Subjectivity in Asian Children's Literature and Film: Global Theories and Implications |chapter=Chapter 4 Cooperation and Negotiation: Formation of Subjectivity in Japanese and Australian Picture Books |pages=66–68 |editor=John Stephens |author=Miyuki Hisaoka |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136228001 |accessdate=20 May 2016}}
It has also been used in schools,{{cite web |url=http://www.prsprprs.com/instead-of-said.html |title=AIS Junior School Pupil Resource Site: You Don't Say |quote=Here is an example of direct speech being used in Pamela Allen's Book Cuthbert's Babies |website=www.prsprprs.com |publisher=Australian International School (Singapore)|accessdate=20 May 2016}} was on the 2004 Storylines Notable Book Awards Picture Books List.{{cite web |url=http://www.storylines.org.nz/Storylines+Profiles/Profiles+A-C/Pamela+Allen.html |title=Pamela Allen: Awards |website=www.storylines.org.nz |publisher=Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand |accessdate=20 May 2016 |archive-date=16 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616213448/http://www.storylines.org.nz/Storylines+Profiles/Profiles+A-C/Pamela+Allen.html |url-status=dead }} and won the 2004 New Zealand Post Book Award in the Picture Book category.{{cite web |url=http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/nz-post-picture-book/ |title=New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults – Picture Book |website=www.christchurchcitylibraries.com |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |accessdate=20 May 2016}}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
- [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/824824958 Library holdings of Cuthbert's Babies]
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Category:2003 children's books