| Betty Gilderdale Award | |
| Host: | Storylines |
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| Country: | New Zealand |
| Website: | Official website |
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.
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 | colspan=2 | ||
| 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 | colspan=2 | ||
| 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 | colspan=2 | ||
| 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] |