Magical Margaret Mahy / Betty Gilderdale ; illustrated by Alan Gilderdale.

By:

Gilderdale, Betty [author.]

Contributor(s):

Gilderdale, Alan [illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Auckland, New Zealand : Puffin Books, 2013. Description: 120 pages; illustrations; 20 cmISBN:

9780143568810 :

Uniform titles:

Introducing Margaret Mahy

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

NZ823.2 B 23

Summary: "Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known writer for children and during her lifetime she wrote more than 200 books. She won some of the world's most prestigious writing awards, including the Carnegie medal and the Hans Christian Anderson award, and she often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy? What was she like as a child? How did she become a writer? Where did her weird and wonderful ideas come from? In these pages we meet the woman behind the name on the book covers. Step into the world of he magical Margaret Mahy." --Bookdepositry.co.uk.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Junior Non-Fiction	Waimate Junior Non-Fiction	Children &Young Adults Section	823 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		a00633559

Revision of: Introducing Margaret Mahy, first published in 1987.

Includes new chapter, updates the lists of awards given to Margaret Mahy and updates the bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known writer for children and during her lifetime she wrote more than 200 books. She won some of the world's most prestigious writing awards, including the Carnegie medal and the Hans Christian Anderson award, and she often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy? What was she like as a child? How did she become a writer? Where did her weird and wonderful ideas come from? In these pages we meet the woman behind the name on the book covers. Step into the world of he magical Margaret Mahy." --Bookdepositry.co.uk.

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