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Margaret Mahy's Books
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The Magician of HoadIn award-winning Margaret Mahy's THE MAGICIAN OF HOAD, now in paperback, a boy with magical powers grows into a young man in a majestic, faraway land.Read More -
Maddigan's FantasiaWhen twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future.In a...Read More
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Southland Times, October 30, 2009
...of the Sea: The Daily Lives of NZ's Lighthouse Keepers The Word Witch: The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy Taking care of nature Young Gardener Galapagos – Preserving Darwin's Legacy Blokes, Jokes and Sheds From small town to big time The e-reader wars...
stuff.co.nz, October 26, 2009
...a chance after reading The Terrible Q by Tanya Batt. Bella Hapson, 6, has already written to author Margaret Mahy. Entries close on October 30. Go online to www.nzbookmonth.co.nz for more details. Ad Feedback Next Western Leader story: Auckland Homepage...
Southland Times, October 24, 2009
...town to big time The e-reader wars Taking care of nature The Word Witch: The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy Always the Sound of the Sea: The Daily Lives of NZ's Lighthouse Keepers Galapagos – Preserving Darwin's Legacy Young Gardener Blokes, Jokes and...
Southland Times, October 23, 2009
...Book Month, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate than with a collection of Margaret Mahy's works. And The Word Witch is a very special treat as it's a collection of Mahy's poems, patiently gathered and edited by Tessa Duder, and illustrated...
Scoop, October 15, 2009
...Press Release The Word Witch The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy Edited by Tessa Duder, illustrated by David Elliot NZRRP $44.99 | NZ RELEASE DATE 1 OCTOBER 2009 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS NZ Finally, Margaret Mahy?s much-loved poems and...
Voxy.co.nz, October 11, 2009
...be a real asset to an institution or collector." There is also a complete set of all Margaret Mahy's books in print in 2009 - all signed by the author, several original signed illustrations, and a bundle of books to enjoy along with a weekend at a...
Guardian Unlimited, September 17, 2009
...168 candidates for the prize this year, with Australia's Morris Gleitzman and Shaun Tan, New Zealand's Margaret Mahy, Germany's Axel Scheffler - illustrator of the Gruffalo books - and Ireland's Kate Thompson all nominated by literary organisations in...
Scoop, September 2, 2009
...Press Release The Word Witch The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy Edited by Tessa Duder, illustrated by David Elliot NZRRP $44.99 | NZ RELEASE DATE 1 OCTOBER 2009 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS NZ Finally, Margaret Mahy?s much-loved poems and...
3 News, August 30, 2009
...sign up to a google plan that would see the company digitise millions of books. New Zealand author Margaret Mahy said ?if one could feel that having your story or book on Google would encourage people to go out and buy the book, that would be one...
Scoop, August 17, 2009
...Ihimaera, Michael King, James K Baxter, Keri Hulme, Maurice Gee, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Charles Brasch, Marilyn Duckworth, Maurice Shadbolt, Margaret Mahy, Allen Curnow, Fiona Kidman, Bill Manhire - the list goes on. In 2005 the US Authors Guild and a...
Otago Daily Times, August 7, 2009
...Caroline Bouffard reviews Awesome Aotearoa, Angel Cake, Cry of the Taniwha and Plague of the Undead. Awesome Aotearoa: Margaret Mahy's History Of New Zealand (AUT Media, $29.99, pbk) takes the reader on a dizzying journey from Gondwanaland to Helen Clark...
Scoop, July 30, 2009
...an interesting exercise. Firstly because it reinforces the vital role that reviews play in helping to complete what Margaret Mahy describes as the arc that joins the writer to the reader Secondly it forces you to concentrate on what constitutes a good...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 2009
...see how to do simple signs such as 'more,' 'eat' and 'no.' (Ages 1 up, with adult supervision.) " Margaret Mahy's comic rhyming text combines perfectly with Polly Dunbar's watercolor illustrations in 'Bubble Trouble' (Clarion, $16), which tells what...
HeraldNet, June 29, 2009
...kids can pull tabs to see how to do simple signs like 'more,' 'eat' and 'no.' 'Bubble Trouble,' Margaret Mahy, $16, ages 3 to 6: Comic rhyming text with Polly Dunbar's watercolor illustrations tells what happens when a young girl's bubble engulfs her...
Washington Post, June 3, 2009
...BUBBLE TROUBLE By Margaret Mahy Illustrated by Polly Dunbar Clarion. $16, ages 3-7 Playing fast and loose with the laws of gravity -- both earthly and emotional -- Margaret Mahy mixes acrobatic language and...
Scoop, April 23, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 23, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 22, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 22, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 22, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 22, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 22, 2009
...dance. Inglorious Basterds clip released Quentin Tarintino has released a clip from his upcoming war film, Inglorious Basterds. Margaret Mahy writes NZ history book for children Margaret Mahy is internationally famed for her stories, which are filled to...
Scoop, April 1, 2009
...line and no leading. If that happened, then it wouldn?t matter if the author?s name was Margaret Mahy or Maurice Gee, the book would still be impossible to read. The second new award is the Awa Press Young Designer of the Year. Further details and...
Scoop, March 31, 2009
...line and no leading. If that happened, then it wouldn't matter if the author's name was Margaret Mahy or Maurice Gee, the book would still be impossible to read. The second new award is the Awa Press Young Designer of the Year. Further details and the...
Scoop, March 23, 2009
...Entries must be received by 31 October 2009, with the presentation of the award made at the Storylines Margaret Mahy Day in March 2010. For further information on the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration, including details on how...
Newstalk ZB, March 4, 2009
...she achieved international fame with the first of the series of Hairy Maclary. In 1999, Dodd received the Margaret Mahy Medal for Services to Children's Literature and in 2002 was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her...
stuff.co.nz, February 23, 2009
...to help out other students.' Georgia has also written a 100-page novel that garnered praise from authors including Margaret Mahy. She and Lucy featured in the North Shore Times in 2007 as two of the youngest New Zealand members of high IQ society Mensa...
Voxy.co.nz, February 3, 2009
...World Leader published by Longacre Press, has won the country's top children's literature prize, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. Andrew Crowe, who is a writer of mainly natural history books, has won the LIANZA Children's Book Awards and the New...
Daily Pilot, February 2, 2009
...recipes for young chefs to make delicious Chinese dishes and special Asian delicacies;The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy is one of the most popular stories in the Chinese folk telling tradition and is based on translations of stories from...
Daily Pilot, January 24, 2009
...recipes for young chefs to make delicious Chinese dishes and special Asian delicacies;The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy is one of the most popular stories in the Chinese folk telling tradition and is based on translations of stories from...
New Zealand Herald, December 16, 2008
...By Frances Grant The Magician of Hoad. Photo / Supplied The indomitable Margaret Mahy's latest young adult novel is proof that a master story-teller can reinvigorate the most tired genre. Fans of the sword-and-sorcery epic won't be troubled, but I had...
The Independent, December 13, 2008
...one of Dunbar's characters. If you prefer her pictures teamed with someone else's words, pick up Margaret Mahy's Bubble Trouble (Frances Lincoln £11.99). These two also collaborated on Down the Back of the Chair, and this is a little less original ?...
stuff.co.nz, December 6, 2008
...for the very wee I've seen in a long time. BEST READ-ALOUD BOOK: Bubble Trouble Frances by Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar (Lincoln Books) I loved the tongue-twisting challenge of this rollicking, frolicking read-aloud-romp from the mistress of...
Shelfari, October 19, 2009
...a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan et al., and the gorgeous, perfect-to-read-aloud, every-teacher-should-know-about 17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy and Patricia MacCarthy." Lunch Lady reviews. Jen Robinson just featured a review of one of my...
Dewey's Treehouse, October 17, 2009
...by Arthur Ransome Fu-Dog , by Rumer Godden The Wandering Wombles , by Elisabeth Beresford Tingleberries, Tuckertubs and Telephones , by Margaret Mahy (a book The Apprentice used to like) The Five Sisters , by Margaret Mahy (this one has some wizard stuff...
Things I've Found in Pockets, October 16, 2009
...about books, dear readers. A review of last night's bedtime stories: "The Boy With Two Shadows", by Margaret Mahy. We loved this sweet story about a boy who takes good care of his shadow. He meets a witch and agrees to babysit her shadow, but it is so...
educating alice, October 9, 2009
...with Richard Walker’s The Way We Work and Tanya Lee Stone’s Almost Astronauts Picture Book Winner: Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar’s Bubble Trouble Honors: Kevin Henkes’ Old Bear and Leslie Patricelli’s Higher! Higher !...
Shelfari, September 21, 2009
...roller-coaster that simulates a hippogriff training flight), and "Dragon Challenge" (a Triwizard Tournament-esque high-speed roller-coaster). (via Educating Alice) Margaret Mahy author interview. Prolific New Zealander Margaret Mahy talks to School...
Bookwitch, September 21, 2009
...individual authors that you may know and be interested in: David Almond, Quentin Blake, Aidan Chambers, Morris Gleitzman, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Walter Dean Myers, Axel Scheffler, Kate Thompson, Tomi Ungerer, Jacqueline Wilson and Diana Wynne...
Latest posts from PaperTigers, September 17, 2009
...author/promoter of literacy Greg Mortenson, proudly nominated by us , the list includes, among many others, New Zealander author Margaret Mahy ; Australian Hazel Edwards ; South African Niki Daly ; Mongolian writer/poet/promoter of reading Dashdondog...
Christchurch City Libraries Blog, June 7, 2009
...OK, so I subscribe to too many email lists, but that is no excuse to have lost in the shuffle the fact that Margaret Mahy has won the Picture Book category of the 2009 Boston Globe– Horn Book Awards ! Bubble-Trouble is a tongue-twisting picture book...
Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle, June 4, 2009
...Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary” by Candace Fleming best picture book: “Bubble Trouble” by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar (via bookshelves of doom ) posting by marin Posted in Awards, Children's, Teen Literature...
educating alice, June 2, 2009
...Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming Picture Book: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar More here...
Planet Atheism, May 8, 2009
...eras, when we read of attempts by Christians in Christchurch to stifle sales of renowned children’s author, Margaret Mahy’s new book ‘Awesome Aotearoa, History of New Zealand’. One look at the cover indicates it is ‘a tongue in check’ book of...
This Is My Secret, April 23, 2009
...realism) Slake's Limbo , by Felice Holman (realism) Toning the Sweep , by Angela Johnson (realism) The Tricksters , by Margaret Mahy (magical realism) A Step from Heaven , by An Na (realism) The His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman...
Chasing Ray, April 15, 2009
...that have been transformed to film through their production. I was intrigued by the names mentioned: Rosemary Wells, Margaret Mahy, Robert McCloskey, etc. When was a Mahy book made into a film? At some point I would like to lump together several books on...
