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Moira Robinson

Moira Robinson has spent the last forty years or so reading, writing and reviewing children’s books.

Moira Robinson reviews ‘Age Weekender’s Fun Plus’ by C. Dowling, E. Phillips, J. Rusden, J. Walker, ‘The Prehistoric Dinosaurs’ by V. Johnson and ‘Amazing Animals of Australia’ by Dick Johnson

September 1978, no. 4 01 September 1978
Education – the leading out: those Romans put their finger, as so often, on the important thing, but twenty centuries later we are still more concerned with ramming in information, rather than leading it forth. Our educational system is still based on the assumption that education consists of facts, information and rigidly ‘right’ answers which must, by fair means or foul, be crammed down th ... (read more)

Moira Robinson reviews 5 Picture Books

October 2002, no. 245 01 October 2002
Reviewing is an odd business. One receives a seemingly random selection of books. The first task, after reading them, is to find a common denominator, some ‘glue’ to hold the review together. This time, the glue was easier to find than is sometimes the case. They are all picture books aimed at kindergarten or early to middle primary school, so if you want ideas about what to give your amazingl ... (read more)

Moira Robinson reviews 5 Children's Picture Books

June–July 2003, no. 252 01 June 2003
What do these five picture books have in common? Well, they are all about animals, but they range from pre-school books such as Shutting the Chooks in, through middle primary with Gezani and the Tricky Baboon, to books for older readers such as I Saw Nothing. They also vary generically: The Elephants’ Big Day Out and Sherlock Bones are fantasies, Gezani and the Tricky Baboon is a retelling of an ... (read more)

Moira Robinson reviews five books

March 2005, no. 269 01 March 2005
Four artists have taken the natural world – its wildlife, its ecology, and its geology – and produced four books with entirely different aims. Kim Michelle Toft describes The World That We Want (UQP, $26.95hb, 32 pp) as ‘one that protects, feeds and shelters everything that lives on it’. Essentially, this is a factual book, but one suffused with a sense of wonder because of Toft’s e ... (read more)