Lucy Frances Harvey "Lu" Rees AM MBE (19 September 1901 – 23 January 1983) was an Australian bookseller, book collector and children's literature advocate.

She founded the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature Rees was born Lucy Frances Harvey Waugh at Guy Fawkes Station in Armidale, New South Wales on 19 September 1901.

Rees and her family moved to Canberra in 1938 and she became a research assistant to Dr Graham Butler, writer of the official history of the Australian Army Medical Services.

[1] The Council's first meeting in October 1957, at University House, saw more than 20 Canberra organisations represented, including the parents and citizens' associations of most Canberran schools and other children's and community bodies.

[1] Rees left her position as manager of Cheshire's bookshop in January 1968, with plans to go on a trip abroad before setting up an Australian book information service.