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Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand children's author. Mahy was influential in changing the landscape of children's literature in her homeland and was one of the most prolific authors, penning more than 120 titles. Her output included poetry, picture books and works for older children, teenage novels, television scripts and stories for magazines and newspapers. Margaret began writing children's books in earnest at the age of eighteen, while training to be a children's librarian in Christchurch. Her big break came fifteen years later when an American publisher came across A Lion in the Meadow and bought it, along with all the other work Margaret had produced over the years. Margaret became a full-time writer in 1980 and wrote The Haunting, which was the first novel outside the United Kingdom to win the Carnegie Medal. She triumphed again two years later with The Changeover. In 2006 Margaret was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international honour given to an author and an illustrator of children's books, in recognition of a lasting contribution to children's literature. Margaret Mahy passed away in July 2012.

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Title:

The Horrible Story and Others (MP3)

Written by:

Margaret Mahy 

Read by:

Richard Mitchley 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

3 hours 8 minutes 

MP3 size:

134 MB 

Published:

May 28 2018 

Available Date:

May 28 2018 

Age Category:

Children (7+) 

ISBN:

9781489443465 

Genres:

Fiction; Children; Children's Fiction; Short Stories 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 24.95

AUD$ 24.95

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#1 bestselling author

A collection of stories which take place around the home and in the neighbourhood

Twenty-one marvellously inventive stories by Carnegie Medal-winning author Margaret Mahy, starting with 'The Horrible Story', about a boy whose chilling tales terrify two older boys. The other stories in this collection include 'The Curiosity Concert', 'The Strange Egg', 'The Girl Who Loved Cars', 'The Little Boy Who Wanted a Flat World', and 'Chocolate Porridge' – which gets eaten by a very unusual guest at Timothy's house!

'... an award-winning children’s author who tested the limits of her readers’ whimsy and courage ... her writing “took one’s breath away” at times ...'
The New York Times