Robin Morrow

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Robin Morrow AM (born 1942) is an Australian lecturer, critic and editor in children's literature. [1] She is a past president of the Australian section of the International Board on Books for Young People IBBY Australia. [2]

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Early life

Robin Moncrieff Morrow was born in 1942. She was educated at Meriden School and at Sydney University. She spent some years teaching English, French and ESL (English as a Second Language).

Australian children's literature expert

In 1971, together with her mother, Beryl Moncrieff Matthews, opened The Children's Bookshop, Beecroft, the first specialist children's bookshop in New South Wales. Robin managed the shop for 25 years. [3]

In the 1990s Robin moved into publishing, for a time acting as children’s publisher at Scholastic. Robin held the position of vice president of the Aora Children’s Literature Research Centre (2008-2013) [4]

Robin has taught children's literature courses at Macquarie University, Australian Catholic University, University of Technology, Sydney and Simmons College, Boston. Robin has reviewed children's books for The Weekend Australian [5] and other review journals.

Her work on literary judging panels includes:

Awards

Works

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References

  1. ↑ Paper empires: a history of the book in Australia 1946-2005 By Craig Munro, Robyn Sheahan-Bright
  2. ↑ "Australia: IBBY official website".
  3. ↑ Morrow, Robin (1999), More of a club than a bookshop : the Children's Bookshop, Beecroft : the first 25 years, Robin Morrow Books, ISBN   978-0-646-36695-1
  4. ↑ Aora Loop Newsletter. 1. May 2008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. ↑ Scutter, Heather (1999). Displaced Fictions: Contemporary Australian Books for Teenagers and Young Adults. ISBN   0522848133.
  6. ↑ "CBCA Awards". cbca.org.au. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009.
  7. ↑ Baker-Dowdell, Johanna (6 June 2019). "New role speaks volumes". The Senior. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Home - Australian Publishers Association".
  9. ↑ "ASLA - Australian School Library Association".
  10. ↑ "Robin Morrow Wins Lady Cutler". Australian Bookseller & Publisher. 84 (6). 2005.
  11. ↑ "Alumni Profiles: Dr Robin Morrow AM". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  12. ↑ Morrow, Robin. "Indigenous languages in some Australian picture books" (PDF). International Board On Books for Young People. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Ursula Dubosarsky : In Love with Language | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories".
  14. ↑ "Advocate for Children's Literature : Maurice Saxby | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories".
  15. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ↑ "Bookbird contents 3 / 2007: IBBY official website".
  17. ↑ Morrow, Robin (2009). "Mapping Australia's Past in Picture Books". Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. 47 (2): 18–26. doi:10.1353/bkb.0.0154. S2CID   143980924.
  18. ↑ A future for the past: The state of children's history. History Council of New South Wales. 2004. ISBN   9780975209028.
  19. ↑ More of a club than a bookshop: The Children's Bookshop, Beecroft: The first 25 years. Robin Morrow Books. 1999. ISBN   9780646366951.
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