NOTES BOOKS AUTHORS
Since 1985 the Society of the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection have been producing Notes Books Authors a series of irregular research papers on aspects of Children’s literature. All NBA, except number 7, have been digitised and are available on this site. here Copies of some issues are available for purchase from the Soc. These are indicated below. Copies marked * are available for purchase from the the Society at PO Box 12499, Wellington 6144. Issues 2 to 6 and 8 to 11 $3.00 issue 7 and 12 $5.00,
Number 1
May 1985
Papers on the Dorothy Neal White Collection
edited by Audrey Cooper and Margot Crawford
Number 2 *
July 1989
Clare Mallory: a personal memoir
by Janet Maconie
Number 3
December 1989
Mrs George Cupples
by Elspeth White
Number 4 *
August 1991
How names become people [About author Edith Annie Howes]
by Celia Dunlop
Number 5 *
September 1995
Charles Hamilton & the ” All Blacks”
by R V Moss
Number 6 *
June 1996
J H Ewing and the self-determined child
by Julie K Eberly
Number 7 *
1998
Dorothy Neal White: a tribute
[Not yet digitised]
Number 8 *
2002
LM, KM, EL, ME & me, KDG:
a talk to The Friends
by Kate De Goldi
Number 9 *
2006
The writings of Elsie J Oxenham:
a New Zealand perspective
by Barbara Robertson
Number 10 *
2007
‘Willingly to War’: British and imperial boys’ story papers, 1905-1914
by Andrew Francis
Number 11 *
2009
Keeping “each of the twos in its right place”
the problematic return journey
by Beatrice Turner
Number 12 *
2014
The 1940s: a turning point: changes in writing for children
Number 13
Special Prize for Gardening
School and Sunday School Prizes in New Zealand during World War I
Examples from the DNW Collection
Number 14
2023
Dismal, Didactic, or Delightful?
New Zealand Picture Books of the 1940s and 1950s
Kay Handcock