♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
Two years ago it happened I found myself in a motel swimming pool in New Mexico. I like swimming....
Alexander Turnbull Library
Author Margaret Mahy leads a group of children through Frank Kitts Park, Wellington - Photograph ...
Interview with Yvonne Mackay and Margaret Mahy
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Poor Judgements - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
When I was a small child and read King Solomon's Mines , a book inherited from my father, I knew ...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Classical Myth and Margaret Mahy's Young Adult Fiction
This thesis investigates the importance of classical myth in the young adult fiction of Margaret ...
Victoria University of Wellington
A Misleading Question - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
Many years ago I read for the first time a novel by Noel Streatfield called Ballet Shoes , possib...
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Truth and Desire - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
In his celebrated essay Tree and Leaf Tolkein [sic: Tolkien] speculates as to why Andrew Lang tur...
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Variations on a Divine Gift - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
Because of the way science has developed over the last three hundred years, we do live in a time ...
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A Fairy Tale Disguised - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
If any story I have told has the mark of social realism on it, it is certainly Memory , and in it...
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Margaret Mahy and the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Margaret Mahy’s novels contain numerous allusions to the classics of Victorian fiction for childr...
Victoria University of Wellington
A Marvellous Code - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
I am going to propose that there is a code in our lives, something we automatically recognise whe...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
World Without, World Within - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost
Walter de la Mare has this to say: The mere cadence of six syllables A Tale of Adventure instantl...
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The Lovers and the Shark - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost - Sport 7: Winter 1991
Two years ago it happened I found myself in a motel swimming pool in New Mexico. I like swimming....
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Fact and Fiction - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost - Sport 7: Winter 1991
I was born in 1936, the year Ballet Shoes was published, and from the time I was very small I was...
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The Great White Man-Eating Shark - ♣ Margaret Mahy — A Dissolving Ghost - Sport 7: Winter 1991
As I have already indicated, an initial incident, true in the most literal sense of the word, beg...
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Margaret Mahy
By: Fiona Rigby
Description:
"But there wasn't a real dragon," said the mother. "It was just a story I made up."
"It turned out to be true after all," said the little boy. "You should have looked in the matchbox first."
"That is how it is," said the lion. "some stories are true and some aren't..."
A Lion in the Meadow, by Margaret Mahy 1936 - 2012.
Thank you for sharing your glorious imagination with us Margaret.
Learn more about Margaret's amazing contribution to children's literature at the Christchurch Libraries' Margaret Mahy site:
http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/margaret...
Subjects: christchurch, canterbury, margaret mahy, author, librarian, award winning, carnegie medal, esther glen award, hans christian andersen award
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