Linda Dowdney's 6-year term as an Editor of Child Psychology & Psychiatry Review has come to an end, and she is stepping down. As her co-editor, I would like to pay tribute to her unstinting work. Linda became co-editor by joining Jonathan Hill at the end of 1992, taking over from Barbara Maughan. At that time the old ACPP Review & Newsletter appeared six times a year. However, it soon became obvious that it was worthwhile re-styling and upgrading the ACPP Review & Newsletter to a peer-reviewed journal, so Linda and Jonathan planned this together with the Council of the ACPP. Progress was slow, but finally in 1995 all was agreed. Jonathan Hill withdrew in 1995 and I took his place.