Magical Margaret Mahy Author: Betty Gilderdale

Product Details: ISBN: 9780143568810 Format: Paperback Pages: 108 Dims (mm): x Pub Date: 24-04-13 Pub Country: New Zealand Condition: NEW

Description: 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. First published in 1987, Betty Gilderdale's biography of Margaret Mahy has been fully revised and updated.

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