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Margaret Mahy's Books
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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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The Magician of HoadIn award-winning author Margaret Mahy's The Magician of Hoad, a boy with magical powers grows into a young man in a majestic, faraway land.Read More
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Capital Times Wellington, February 2, 2012
...Clayton, Craig Cliff, Bill Manhire and Harry Ricketts, and Kiwi childrens’ writers by Lynley Dodd, Gavin Bishop and Margaret Mahy. The programme also includes sessions focusing on the business of writing, sessions for secondary school students, a...
University of Canterbury, January 31, 2012
...one of the pioneers of modern New Zealand poetry. Previous recipients of the residency include Owen Marshall (1981), Margaret Mahy (1984), Keri Hulme (1985), Fiona Farrell (1992), Sue McCauley (1993), Catherine Chidgey (2003), Charlotte Randall (2005),...
Scoop, January 26, 2012
...a rare opportunity to experience three of New Zealand?s most-loved children?s writers - Lynley Dodd, Gavin Bishop and Margaret Mahy. Three lunchtime sessions at Downstage focus on the business of writing - Why Isn?t Theatre Dead Yet?, The Art of...
Info News, December 20, 2011
.../>Last week participants selected 25 illustrated fiction and non-fiction books each, including titles by favourite authors such as Margaret Mahy and Joy Cowley, to be delivered every two weeks to their homes by a team of helpers.Some of the...
Dominion Post, December 14, 2011
...I think they are all marvellous books, but the proof of best remains in the reading. Take The Margaret Mahy Treasury, for example. With 11 stories and seven artists, it would take a brave reviewer to pick the best. A Lion in the Meadow came first, which...
National Business Review, December 13, 2011
...ebooks, the largest collection of digital New Zealand books. The conversion of about 400 titles, including books by Margaret Mahy, Bill Manhire and Owen Marshall, to digital format and their availability online was an initiative by Digital Publishing New...
Scoop, December 11, 2011
...Snake and Lizard and Diana Noonan?s Quaky Cat. Gavin discusses his work and reads from his enchanting books. MARGARET MAHY: A Magical, Marvellous, Wacky, Whimsical World Margaret Mahy has had a profound and exhilarating influence on New Zealand?s...
Otago Daily Times, January 20, 2012
...way of getting an anti-bullying message across and then there is the series that was story outlined by Margaret Mahy that I wasn't able to find funding for, that I would have liked to have completed. But, life is too short for regrets. "I am thankful for...
Scoop, January 15, 2012
...?West Side Story?. Jason features in the current hit television series ?Kaitangata Twitch?, based on the novel by Margaret Mahy. Dancer, Cat Ruka, will inspire rhythm as dance lecturer. Cat (Ngapuhi, Waitaha) is an award-winning, emerging independent...
MSN New Zealand, January 9, 2012
...video Waihi residents speak: containers 'keep coming ashore' (2:58) Response teams and locals are bracing themselves for fuel, containers and debris from the broken ship Rena to wash ashore… Watch...
New Zealand Herald, January 9, 2012
...Margaret Mahy - Author What is your favourite book? That's an impossible question. But I do really like Nicholas Nickleby and other Dickens books. Why? They've got a lot...
Arts Hub, January 5, 2012
...west coast, joins the likes of golfer Sir Bob Charles, opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and writer Margaret Mahy. Celebrated for his commitment to social, environmental and political issues, Hotere has been working for over five decades as a painter,...
stuff.co.nz, December 30, 2011
...Mike Moore, Helen Clark and Jim Bolger, singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, sportsman Sir Murray Halberg and writer Margaret Mahy. The recognition is long overdue, says Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, former director of art and collection at Te Papa and now head...
Timaru Herald, December 30, 2011
...Mike Moore, Helen Clark and Jim Bolger, opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, academic Lloyd Geering, and writer Margaret Mahy. Henry is made a Knight Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit (KNZM) - as are Wellingtonian of the Year Father Des Britten,...
