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Margaret Mahy
A mouth-watering tale of delicious cakes and wicked witches from New Zealand's most celebrated children's writer, Margaret Mahy, with gorgeous illustrations from award-winning artist Jessica Twohill.
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Seventeen kings on forty-two elephants
Going on a journey through a wild wet night...
Join the kings and the elephants on their jungle journey, meeting new creatures as they dance…
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When the little boy tells his mother he has seen a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow, she decides to make up a story for him too and…
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These are stories of boundless imagination, exuberant characters, magical language and priceless humour.
The Margaret Mahy Collection contains six favourite Mahy stories narrated by Margaret herself. In this collection you…
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Tessa Duder
From a wealth of source materials provided by Margaret and her earliest publishers and editors, Tessa Duder has woven many strands to provide us with a fascinating story as we…
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E Hale,S. (Eds) Winters
Margaret Mahy’s extraordinary young-adult novels are examined by leading scholars in this collection of critical essays. Considering the ways that fantasy provides both adventure and security for adolescents, the discussion…
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A magical collection of short stories from double Carnegie Medal winner Margaret Mahy.
A wizard’s house with coloured windows that look into worlds of treetops and deserts, cloud-castles and diamonds…
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In a time not far from our own, a colourful group of travellers braves the twisting, unpredictable landscape of a world trying to remake itself years after near-destruction.
Include two tales: The Great Piratical Rumbustification introduces us to Alpha, Oliver, and Omega Terrapin, alone for an evening of devilish fun and none other than Orpheus Clinker, a reformed…
Heriot is forced to serve as the King’s magician in the capital city of Diamond. Isolated and lonely, his only friends are the ‘mad prince’ Dysart and Cayley, a mysterious…
In this new novel by an award-winning author, a boy with magical powers grows into a young man in a majestic, faraway land, where he sets off on a quest…
What happens to a girl who has dangerous dreams? What if the land itself punishes those who would harm it? Now adapted into a major, 13-part TV series, this spell-binding…
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When a hippo follows him home, Robert is pleased - but his parents are not! As more and more hippos crowd into the garden they turn to a witch for…
At last! At last! I will have my revenge! Ditta wants to be a detective - and when her best friend Max tells her that his new bedroom is haunted…
I don’t know if the world counts as the world any more, not since the wars of the Destruction … we’re the leftover people going between the leftover places. In…
When Carlo and his mother, Jessica, accept a free bus ticket from a strange old woman in the supermarket, they are really only being polite. Secretly they think she must…
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy.
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After a shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages, he learns about a family legacy which could be considered a curse or a rare gift.
Reality and the supernatural intertwine in this novel.
Angela May has never met her father. When she finally finds him she doesn’t get the reaction she expected. But Angela finds that her friend, Tycho Potter, has problems of…
Aunt Nasty is coming to stay. Claire and Toby don’t know what to expect. You see, Aunt Nasty isn’t like other aunties. Aunt Nasty is a witch!
A spooky and…
A witch’s pill is supposed to cure Robert of the hippopotami who daily follow him home from school–but there is one disadvantage to the treatment.
This is a collection of humorous stories about the Delmonico family. Discover what happens when Mrs Delmonico announces she is feeling a little blue and promptly turns blue, and meet…
A story about a dog with a magical tail by the celebrated and award-winning Margaret Mahy, with illustrations by Tony Ross.
Ellis is an ordinary 17-year-old; someone who’s planning to finish school and go to university like any other teenager. The difference is that four months ago, his best friend Simon…
An adventure from Margaret Mahy - blended with her trademark surreal humour and writing that makes you want to read it.
Mindblowing new novel from multi-awardwinning author, Margaret Mahy.
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE CHANGEOVER - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. ‘A gorgeous, strange, unforgettable story … I more than loved it’ Laini Taylor…
Mrs Gimble’s cat would love to prowl, but has only three legs. Mrs Gimble’s brother, who prowls the world, comes to visit and mistakes the cat for his hat ……
This is a picture book about the Castle family, their plum tree and the enormous quantities of jam Mr Castle makes. The family end up eating jam for all three…
Let’s go down to the sea this summery, Saturday morning, down the wiggly track, scattering shells and leaping logs! first the dogs chase the cat, next they chase a boy…
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. ‘Strong and terrifying … The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological…
‘Shall we just walk along, Dad, or shall we make some of it up?’
Join Michael and his over-worked dad as they journey home one fun-filled afternoon.
Overflowing with imagination…
Margaret Mahy,Margaret Chamberlain
Good Baby gets a banana for pudding and, this time, he eats it all up. Boom-biddy-boom-biddy-yum-yum-yum!
Readers meet the man from Fandango who pays a visit once every five hundred years, the word-wizard who casts her spell over the Delmonico family, and many other unforgettable characters…
David Elliot,Margaret Mahy
A heart-warming story - with lots of fun wordplay - about a grumpy farmer whose animals keep him awake at night singing and dancing by the light of the moon…
Every day on 11-year-old Tristram Catt’s way home from school he passes the Featherstonehaugh Children’s Home. He pretends he is an intergalactic secret agent, no one else uses the track…
Something is happening down in the dump, but Dinsmore’s school principal doesn’t want him to know about it…
Monty is allergic to ghosts: if there’s one around he sneezes. That’s how he discovers Lulu haunting an old vintage car at the bottom of the garden. And as soon…
Captain Lionel Wafer and his fellow-pirates - Toad, Brace-and-Bit and Winkle - are no ordinary ruffians. Clinging to the belief that life should be simple, free and unplanned they set…
Delphinium spends her tenth birthday aboard a traveling space circus, fighting against the dark forces who are bent on stamping out fun.
