The Betty Gilderdale Award, also known as the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award, is a New Zealand award given to an individual for outstanding service to children's literature and literacy. Before 2000 the award was known as the Children's Literature Association's Award for Services to Children's Literature. It was renamed in honour of the children's author Betty Gilderdale.[1]
Recipients of the award received a cash prize of $2000 and deliver the Storylines Spring Lecture.[1]
Previous recipients of the award include:
Year
Name
Title of Lecture
1990
Eve Sutton
1991
Dorothy Butler
1992
Elsie Locke
1993
Jo Noble
1994
Ron Bacon
1995
No award
1996
Graham Beattie
A Fortunate Life
1997
Diane Hebley & Gary Hebley
A Goose, a Gander and a Clutch of Eggs
1998
Phyllis Johnston
An Impressionable Age
1999
Betty Gilderdale
The Effects of Post-Modernism on Children’s Literature
2000
No award
2001
Veda Pickles
Friends and Relatives[2]
2002
Barbara Murison
Tapestries 1931-2002
2003
Jean Bennett
Children’s Literature is a Community Event, and the Dangers of Dragons
2004
Ray Richards
Do You Know the Way to Castor Bay? A Life in Publishing and Children’s Books
2005
John McKenzie
Children’s Literature as an Academic Study: A Perilous Space?
2006
Frances Plumpton
Climbing the Magic Faraway Tree
2007
Kāterina Mataira
Creativity and Expression.
2008
Lois Rout
Anecdotal Meanderings
2009
No award
2010
Glyn Strange
Getting in Behind
2011
Ruth McIntyre and John McIntyre
2012
Gerri Judkins
2013
Trevor Agnew
The Reviewer Reviewed.
2014
Robyn Southam
2015
Trish Brooking
Past to present: Navigating New Zealand Children’s Literature.[3]
2016
Rosemary Tisdall
A Life of Privilege[4]
2017
Maureen Crisp
2018
Jeannie Skinner
For the Love of Libraries
2019
Crissi Blair
A Tour of my Bookshelves
2020
Lorraine Orman
Story and Serendipity
2021
Sarah Forster
A changing landscape of 'good' books[5]
2022
Libby Limbrick[6]
In Praise of Storylines – and Reading for Pleasure[7]
^ ab"Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award". Storylines. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^Pickles, Veda (2001). "Friends and Relatives" (PDF). Storylines. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^Brooking, Trish (2015). "Past to present: Navigating New Zealand Children's Literature" (PDF). Storylines. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^Tisdall, Rosemary (December 2016). "A Life of Privilege" (PDF). Storylines. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^"A changing landscape of 'good' books" (PDF). Storylines Trust. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
^"2022 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award". Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
^"In Praise of Storylines – and Reading for Pleasure" (PDF). Storylines Trust. 6 November 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
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