Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories for 1940, and she contributed other short stories to magazines such as
Youth's Companion,
Portal, and
Delineator. In 1952, friends established the Mabel Louise Robinson Scholarship at Columbia University for students of advanced fiction writing.
According to Robinson, her thoughts were almost always on children and children's books and writers for children. Her first book, Dr. Tam O'Shanter (1921)--a series of sketches and stories about a dog and his adventures with his owner and her friends at college--was intended for older children. The four Little Lucia books, published from 1922 to 1926, were aimed at younger children and concern a young girl and her dog and vacations. These early efforts, although charming, lack staying power. Another dog story, Sarah's Dakin (1927), again reflects Robinson's love of youngsters and their pets. Two later books, Back-Seat Driver (1949) and Skipper Riley, The Terrier Sea Dog (1955), were less popular than the earlier dog stories, but they were not without charm or fun.
Robinson's finest book appeared in 1937. She had been fond of Maine for years. As she wrote about herself in The Junior Book of Authors, "The four summer months are for Maine where I have leisure to write, to sail, and to do as I please." Bright Island reflects the author's love of the sea and sailing and of lonely, isolated people.
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