Dorothy Butler

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Dorothy Butler
OBE
Born
Muriel Dorothy Norgrove

(1925-04-24)24 April 1925
Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand
Died20 September 2015(2015-09-20) (aged 90)
Te Atatū Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand
Alma materAuckland University College
Occupation(s)Author, bookseller
SpouseRoy Edward Butler
Children8

Muriel Dorothy Butler

OBE (née Norgrove, 24 April 1925 – 20 September 2015) was a New Zealand children's book author, bookseller, memoirist and reading advocate.[1] She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award
.

Personal life

Butler was born in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn on 24 April 1925,[2] the daughter of William Victor Norgrove and his wife Emily Isobel Norgrove (née Brown).[3][4] She was educated at Auckland Girls' Grammar School,[2] before studying at Auckland University College, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1947.[5] She became engaged to her future husband, Roy Edward Butler, in August 1945,[3] and they were married in 1947.[6] They went on to have eight children together, six daughters and two sons.[7]

Butler died on 20 September 2015 in Te Atatū Peninsula, Auckland.[7][8]

Work

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.[9]

Canadian writer

The Read-Aloud Handbook
.

Honours and 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.

Butler won the Children's Book Circle Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1980.[11]

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.[12][13] Butler's lecture was titled Telling Tales.[13] In 1991 she was awarded the Children's Literature Association's Award for Services to Children's Literature (now Betty Gilderdale Award).[14]

In the

Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to children's literature.[15]

Bibliography

An assortment of Dorothy Butler books including multiple editions of Babies Need Books, her autobiography, Cushla and Her Books and My Brown Bear Barney.

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
  • "Farmer Beetroot's Birthday"
  • 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
  • The Magpies Said: Stories and Poems from New Zealand
  • Reading for Enjoyment for 0-6 Year Olds

References

  1. ^ "Interviews with NZ Childrens Authors: Dorothy Butler". Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Interview with Dorothy Butler". Christchurch City Libraries. 2002. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Engagements announced". Auckland Star. 22 August 1945. p. 3. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Marriages". The New Zealand Herald. 14 June 1923. p. 1. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  5. ^ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Bri–By". Archived from the original on 18 January 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  6. ISBN 0-908578-34-2
    .
  7. ^ a b "Dorothy Butler death notice". The New Zealand Herald. 21 September 2015. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  8. ^ Cowlishaw, Shane (21 September 2015). "Beloved literary figure Dorothy Butler dies". Auckland Now. Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  9. ^ "A Children's Bookshop in New Zealand: One Family's Enterprise". Horn Book. April 1977. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  10. ISBN 0-13-579822-1
    .
  11. ^ "Eleanor Farjeon award winners lists". Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  12. ^ "Margaret Mahy Medal Award". Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch City Libraries. 2012. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  13. ^ a b "Margaret Mahy Award". Storylines.org.nz. Auckland, New Zealand: Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand. 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  14. ^ "Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award". Storylines. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  15. ^ "No. 53154". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1992. p. 30.
  • Du Chateau, Carroll, "Dorothy and her books," New Zealand Herald, 12 June 1999, page J4.

External links

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