Dorothy Butler (1) (1925–2015)
Author of My Brown Bear Barney
For other authors named Dorothy Butler, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Muriel Dorothy Butler was born in Grey Lynn, New Zealand on April 24, 1925. She received 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 was a show more children's book author and bookseller. She founded the Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop in Auckland. She wrote children's books, non-fiction books, and two autobiographies. Her works include Come Back Ginger, My Brown Bear Barney, Seadog, What a Birthday!, Babies Need Books: Sharing the Joy of Books with Children from Birth to Six, Five to Eight: Vital Years for Reading, There Was a Time, and All This and a Bookshop Too. She received several awards during her lifetime including the Children's Book Circle Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1980 and the Margaret Mahy Award in 1992. In 1993, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature. She died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Dorothy Butler
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1925-04-24
- Date of death
- 2015-09-20
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- children's book author
bookshop owner
teacher
editor - Awards and honors
- Order of the British Empire ( 1993)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1982)
Eleanor Farjeon Award (1979)
Margaret Mahy Medal (1992)
American Library Association Citation (1985)
CLA Award for Services to Children’s Literature (1991) - Nationality
- New Zealand
- Places of residence
- Karekare, New Zealand
- Place of death
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Associated Place (for map)
- New Zealand
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This book is about a little girl who loves her brown bear named barney. She loves to take him everywhere she goes and in the end she has to go to school and her mom tells her that bears do not go to school so barney can not go, but she sneaks him anyway. I enjoyed the book I thought it was really cute and it reminds me of a teddy bear that I have had since I was born.
This poetry anthology for children provides poems for children to sing, to listen to, jig along with and dream about. The author was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her services to children's literature in 1979.
A little girl who is used to bringing her teddy bear everywhere she goes gets told by her mom she cant bring it to school but she does it anyways.
this story was about aa young girl who had a stuffed bear named barney. she carried this bear everywhere and when it was time for her to start school her mother said she couldn't take barney with her. in the end she snuck barney in her backpack.
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- Works
- 33
- Members
- 713
- Popularity
- #35,569
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 100
- Languages
- 1