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The Margaret Mahy Treasury Margaret Mahy

The Margaret Mahy Treasury By Margaret Mahy

The Margaret Mahy Treasury by Margaret Mahy


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The Margaret Mahy Treasury by Margaret Mahy

The Margaret Mahy Treasury contains eleven favourite Mahy stories, plus a CD of Margaret reading six of her classic stories. The marvellous Margaret Mahy wrote many of New Zealand's most loved children's stories. These are stories of boundless imagination, exuberant characters, magical language and priceless humour. In this volume you will find such timeless classics as A Lion in the Meadow, The Witch in the Cherry Tree, The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate and many more. These beautifully illustrated stories are childhood essentials.

About Margaret Mahy

Date- 2013-08-06 Margaret Mahy is internationally recognised as one of today's best writers for young readers, her books having been translated into all the major languages of the world. Twice winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, she has also won the Esteher Glen Award five times and the Observer Teenage Fiction Award once. Born in a country town in New Zealand, the oldest of a family of five, with over twenty cousins in the surrounding neighbourhood, Margaret Mahy grew up with a strong sense of being part of a close family. She lives near Christchurch in New Zealand. In 1936, the year Margaret Mahy was born, only four books for children were published in New Zealand. Mahy was influential in changing the landscape of children's literature in her homeland - one of the most prolific of authors, she penned over 100 titles. Her output includes poetry, picture books, works for older children, teenage novels, television scripts and stories for magazines and newspapers. Mahy grew up in a close family with five brothers and sisters. Her always vivid imagination made life at school interesting rather than easy. After seeing The Jungle Book, she announced to her astonished seven-year-old classmates that she could talk to animals - 'I had to resort to talking a certain gibberish and eating leaves and drinking out of puddles to prove how close I was to the

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CIN0143307517G
9780143307518
0143307517
The Margaret Mahy Treasury by Margaret Mahy
Used - Good
Hardback
Penguin Group (NZ)
20121024
272
N/A
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