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Obituary — Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy 1936-2012 The three most intelligent people I’ve known: Margaret Mahy, Ted Rye, Maurice Duggan, all storytellers, all dead. In them, the torrents of intellect and imagination came together like the staff of Hermes with its twining snakes Knowledge…
I will do my best to be helpful, Ann Mallinson
Ann Mallinson shares a letter she received 20 years ago. Margaret Mahy was, among many other things, an ideas person. She loved discussing ideas, and those of us who were lucky enough to have her accept an invitation to stay…
Riddles and charms, Kathryn Walls
The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy: The Word Witch Tessa Duder (ed), David Elliot (illustrations) HarperCollins, $44.99, ISBN 9781869507077 The Dark Blue Hundred-ride Bus Ticket Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508166 Awesome Aotearoa: Margaret Mahy’s History of New Zealand Margaret…
Tagged with: AUT Media, David Elliot, HarperCollins, Kathryn Walls, Margaret Mahy, Tessa Duder, Trace Hodgson
Posted in Children, History, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, History, Literature, Review
Doubles and damage, Geoff Miles
The Magician of Hoad Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869506872 The Magician of Hoad takes Margaret Mahy into new territory – new for her at least. Her earlier YA novels were set in the real world. A highly-coloured version of…
Tagged with: Geoff Miles, HarperCollins, Issue 86, Margaret Mahy, Winter 2009
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults
The mundane and the marvellous, Adrienne Gavin
Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy ed Elizabeth Hale and Sarah Fiona Winters Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735162 Any addition to critical publications on Margaret Mahy is to be welcomed. Elizabeth Hale’s and Sarah Fiona Winters’ Marvellous Codes:…
Tagged with: Adrienne Gavin, Elizabeth Hale, Issue 74, Margaret Mahy, Sarah Fiona Winter, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction
Mahy wins “Little Nobel”
Margaret Mahy has won the world’s premier prize for children’s writing, the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Dubbed the “Little Nobel”, it has been given biennially since 1956 to an author who has made a lasting contribution to international children’s literature.…
Plaits and mandibles, Margaret Mahy
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun Janet Frame, illustrations by David Elliot Random, $29.95, ISBN 1869417240 Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, by novelist Janet Frame, was first published in 1969. In those days not many…
Tagged with: David Elliot, Issue 72, Janet Frame, Margaret Mahy, Random, Summer 2005
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Unearthly mapmaking, Anna Jackson
Dreamhunter Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 0732281938 The Time of the Giants Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403428 Maddigan’s Fantasia Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869505611 Maddigan’s Fantasia opens with Garland Maddigan’s note to herself, “Written down things…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 70, Margaret Mahy, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Home truths and fantasy worlds, Kathryn Walls
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