Dorothy Butler
| Dorothy Butler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Muriel Dorothy Norgrove 24 April 1925 |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Occupation | Author, bookseller |
| Spouse(s) | Roy Edward Butler |
Muriel Dorothy Butler, OBE (born 24 April 1925), is a children's book author, bookseller, memoirist and reading advocate from New Zealand.[1]
Awards
Butler was awarded a Diploma in Education from the University of Auckland for her study of her severely handicapped granddaughter Cushla; this research was later adapted for publication as Cushla and Her Books.
She founded the famed Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop in Auckland which remains a going concern, albeit under new ownership. A brief history of the bookshop's early years was reported in the April 1977 issue of the Horn Book magazine.[2]
Butler won the Children's Book Circle Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1980.[3]
In 1992, Butler became the second recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award, whose winners present and publish a lecture concerning children's literature or literacy.[4][5] Butler's lecture was titled Telling Tales.[5]
In the 1993 New Year Honours, Butler was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to children's literature.[6]
Bibliography
Non-fiction
- Babies Need Books
- Children, Books and Families
- Cushla and Her Books
- Five to Eight: Vital Years for Reading
- Reading Begins at Home: Preparing Children for Reading Before They Go to School (with Marie Clay)
Autobiography
- There Was a Time
- All This and a Bookshop Too
Children's books
- Another Happy Tale
- Bears, Bears, Bears
- Behave Yourself, Martha
- Birthday Rain
- The Breakdown Day
- A Bundle of Birds
- By Jingo! A Tale of Old New Zealand
- Come Back Ginger: A Tale of Old New Zealand
- Davy's Ducks: A Tale of Old New Zealand
- Farm Boy, City Girl
- Farmyard Fiasco
- Good Morning, Mrs. Martin
- A Happy Tale
- Hector, an Old Bear
- Higgledy Piggledy Hobbledy Hoy
- Just a Dog
- The Little, Little Man
- Lulu
- My Brown Bear Barney
- My Brown Bear Barney at School
- My Brown Bear Barney at the Party
- My Brown Bear Barney in Trouble
- My Monkey Martha
- O'Reilly and the Real Bears
- Seadog: A Tale of Old New Zealand
- Smile Please, Martha
- What a Birthday!
- What Peculiar People!
- Where's Isabella?
Anthologies
- For Me, Me, Me: Poems for the Very Young
- I Will Build You a House: Poems
- Magpies Said: Stories and Poems from New Zealand
- Reading for Enjoyment for 0-6 Year Olds
References
- ↑ Interviews with NZ Childrens Authors: Dorothy Butler
- ↑ "A Children's Bookshop in New Zealand: One Family's Enterprise". Horn Book. April 1977. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ↑ Eleanor Farjeon award winners lists
- ↑ "Margaret Mahy Medal Award". Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch City Libraries. 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Margaret Mahy Award". Storylines.org.nz. Auckland, New Zealand: Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand. 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 53154, 30 December 1992. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- Du Chateau, Carroll, "Dorothy and her books," New Zealand Herald, 12 June 1999, page J4.