Margaret Mahy - Children's Author

New Zealander Margaret Mahy, who sadly died in early 2012,was the first writer from outside the UK to win the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Mahy's genius with language has been demonstrated over and over again in a prolific list of titles from early picture books through to challenging teenage fiction.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Margaret Mahy

Bubble Trouble Big Book
Margaret Mahy
This Best Picture Book Award book by best selling author Margaret Mahy and illustrator Polly Dunbar is available here in a big book format perfect for reading to groups of children. When little Mabel bows a big bubble she never...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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The Man from the Land of Fandango
Margaret Mahy
September 2012 Book of the Month. Award-winning Margaret Mahy’s deliciously original creation cavorts across the pages of this exuberant picture book. Told in rhyming a text, the story is set in the wonderful land of Fandango where there’s dancing and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2012
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Bubble Trouble
Margaret Mahy
This fabulous and ridiculous bouncing story told in a rollicking rhyme charts the adventures of a baby who gets wafted away in a bubble. Over the heads of all bibble - bobbles the baby in the bubble while everyone wonders,...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Bubble Trouble
Margaret Mahy
This fabulous and ridiculous bouncing story told in a rollicking rhyme charts the adventures of a baby who gets wafted away in a bubble. Over the heads of all bibble - bobbles the baby in the bubble while everyone wonders,...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Maddigan's Fantasia
Margaret Mahy
A work of outstanding imagination, this is a fantastic adventure set in a time not too far in the future where things are almost the same as we know them but also just a little bit different. Garland Maddigan, the...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2006
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