Congratulations Dr. Robin Morrow for your Australia Day honour! MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA Dr Robin Moncrieff MORROW, PO Box 329, Beecroft NSW 2119 For significant service to childrens literature, and through leadership roles with a range of professional associations. Owner/Manager, The Childrens Bookshop, Beecroft, 1971-1996; first specialist childrens bookshop in New South Wales. - The shop became a well-known gathering place for readers, authors and illustrators from around Australia and overseas for talks on literary matters to promote literacy and reading. - Larger premises allowed expansion as a venue for book launches, seminars and promotional events such as authors talks and childrens activities. Speaker at schools, colleges, universities and book groups, in the 1970s and 1980s. Children’s Publisher, Scholastic Publishing, in the 1990s. Visiting lecturer in Childrens Literature, University of Technology Sydney, Macquarie University and the Australian Catholic University. Current Online lecturer, course on Australian Childrens Literature for postgraduate students, Simmons College, Boston USA. Continues to share Australian childrens literature through speaking engagements, articles and presentations in Australia and internationally. Vice-President, Aora Childrens Literature Research Centre NSW, since 2008. President, Australian Section, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), since 2009; has represented Australia and delivered papers at IBBY world congresses. Member, Childrens Book Council of Australia, since the 1980s. Other Judging Panel roles include: - Chair, Judging Panel, Ena Noel Award, Australian Section IBBY. - Childrens Book Council of Australia National Awards (NSW Judge), 2001 and 2002. - NSW Premiers Literary Awards. - Dorothea Mackellar National Poetry Competition. Publications include: Reviews and commentary of childrens literature including The Weekend Australian; Sydneys Child; Magpies; The Australian Bookseller and Publisher (industry magazine); and other Australian and international journals. Several anthologies of work by childrens authors. More of a Club than a Bookshop - The Childrens Bookshop, Beecroft: The First 25 years, 1999. Beetle Soup: Australian stories and poems for children, Robin Morrow (ed) and Stephen Michael King (illus), Scholastic Australia, 1996; re-issued in paperback as And the Roo Jumped Over the Moon. Awards/recognition include: Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Service to Childrens Literature in New South Wales, Childrens Book Council of Australia, 2004. John Hirst Awards for outstanding service to teacher librarianship and school libraries in New South Wales, Australian School Library Association, 1998. Pixie OHarris Award for Dedicated and Distinguished Service to the Development and Reputation of Australian Childrens Literature, Australian Publishers Association, 1996. gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/Media%20Notes%20-%20AM%20(M-Z)%20(final).pdf
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