Margaret Mahy

Mahy, with her characteristic rainbow wig,<br />at the Kaiapoi Club, July 2011 Margaret Mahy (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal twice. It recognises the year's best children's book by a British subject, and she won for both ''The Haunting'' (1982) and ''The Changeover'' (1984). (As of 2012 just seven writers have won two Carnegies, none three.) She was also a highly commended runner up for ''Memory'' (1987).

Among her children's books, ''A Lion in the Meadow'' and ''The Seven Chinese Brothers'' and ''The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate'' are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into Te Reo Māori, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addition, some stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Icelandic.

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    Down the dragon's tongue by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Orchard Books, 2000
    First American edition.
    Format: Book


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    Beaten by a balloon by Mahy, Margaret

    New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998
    Format: Book


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    The good Fortunes gang by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Delacorte, 1993
    Format: Book


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    The Queen's goat by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    The boy who was followed home by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1986
    Format: Book


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    Leaf magic by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Parents' Magazine Press, 1977
    Format: Book


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    Alchemy by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2003
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    The changeover : a supernatural romance by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Atheneum, 1984
    Format: Book


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    The man whose mother was a pirate by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Atheneum, 1972
    First American edition.
    Format: Book


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    17 kings and 42 elephants by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1987
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    The catalogue of the universe by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Atheneum, 1985
    First American edition.
    Format: Book


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    Nonstop nonsense by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1989
    First American edition.
    Format: Book


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    The girl with the green ear : stories about magic in nature by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : A.A. Knopf, 1992
    Format: Book


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    The pumpkin man and the crafty creeper by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1990
    Format: Book


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    The witch in the cherry tree by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Parents' Magazine Press, 1974
    Format: Book


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    Making friends by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : M.K. McElderry Books, 1990
    First U.S. edition.
    Format: Book


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    Ultra-violet catastrophe!, or, The unexpected walk with Great-Uncle Magnus Pringle by Mahy, Margaret

    New York [N. Y.] : Parents' Magazine Press, 1975
    Format: Book


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    The man whose mother was a pirate by Mahy, Margaret

    New York, Atheneum 1972
    1st American ed.
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    Maddigan's Fantasia by Mahy, Margaret

    New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Mister Whistler by Mahy, Margaret

    Wellington, N.Z. : Gecko Press, 2012
    Format: Book