The Australian Women's Register

1 digital audio tape (ca. 55 min.) Joan Phipson speaks about her own writings where she tried to transform the experiences she has had into something that children will enjoy; of the importance of the Australian landscape in her books and favourite books of her own; how she wrote, where her ideas came from, the purpose of her writing and the importance writing “from” rather than “for” children; of her dislike for rewriting but indicated that she generally fitted in with her editor’s advice; the value of editors and literary agents; fantasies in Australian children’s literature and the work of the illustrator; children’s authors from the 1950s onwards.