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Describes Laurie Copping's energetic involvements with teaching, community service and family, and with children's literature, including key roles with the Children's Book Council of Australia.
Author and folklorist Bill Scott believes that modern Australian life and literature shows little evidence of migrant cultures, despite our history of immigrants. Rather, he says, they reflect a 'recognisably Australian' ethos with its roots in colonial life, as well as a stream of indigenous cultures and folklore.
Julie Bradley describes the enriching experience of being the inaugural Lu Rees Archives Fellow in 2001, so enabling her to use the collection of children's literature as a 'point of reference and inspiration' for her own artwork.
Describes the literary career and world of children's novelist Joan Phipson, who saw the dominant theme of her own work as 'man's relationship with the earth he lives on and with the universe about him.'
The text of the inaugural Walter McVitty lecture given by children's author Mem Fox in Canberra, 2002. She discusses some of the challenges and joys of writing for children, especially the very young, particularly in her book for babies, Where is the Green Sheep? (2004).
