Background
Robin Moncrieff Morrow was born in 1942. 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 Moncrieff Morrow was born in 1942. 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.
She was educated at Meriden School and at Sydney University.
She is president of the Australian section of the International Board on Books for Young People IBBY Australia. She spent some years teaching English, French and English as Second Language (English as a Second Language). Robin managed the shop for 25 years.
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)
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 and other review journals.
Her work on literary judging panels includes:
NSW judge for the Children"s Book Council of Australia national awards 2001–2002
NSW Premier"s Literary.
1996: Pixie O"Harris Award 1996 for Dedicated and Distinguished Service to the Development and Reputation of Australian Children"s Literature 1998: John Hirst Award 1998 for outstanding service to teacher librarianship and school libraries in New South Wales 2004: Lady Cutler Award 2004 for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature in NSW (Children"s Book Council of Australia, NSW) 2014: Member (Department of Administration and Management) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.