Margaret Mahy

This attractive hardback anthology of the marvellous Margaret Mahy's stories brings together many classic childhood favourites. All eleven stories are presented with their original iconic illustrations and all will amuse, enthrall and delight. Finally The Man whose Mother was a Pirate, The Lion in t...

Margaret Mahy’s fantastic history of New Zealand has been revised and updated to include recent events such as the Christchurch earthquakes and the economic recession. “ … Look for New Zealand on the map. There is the North Island like some long-necked creature leaping up and away, trying to esc...

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 …A gloriously funny picture book.

Winner of The New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. First, 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. Eventually he is won over by the moon and the animals and...

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 meals a day, dreaming of jam and dreading the day when, once more, the plum tree is ripe and laden with fruit.

The lovely smell of baking cakes being made by David and his mother, lures a witch to their garden. David takes pity on her and gives her his cakes which are exactly the way she likes them - burnt! And there is a recipe on the last page too.

What would you do if you knew there was a lion in the meadow, but your mother wouldn't believe you, and gave you a matchbox with a dragon in it to scare away the lion, and the dragon was there too?. This 1989 edition has a different ending from the original 1969 edition, which won the 1970 LIANZ...

Sam is an ordinary person who wears an ordinary suit and ordinary shoes. He works in an ordinary, neat office writing down figures all day and underlining them. But Sam's mother is definitely not an ordinary woman, Sam's mother is a pirate and she wants to sweep him away to sea...Written by a best-s...

Like its companion volumes WONDERFUL ME! And WAIT FOR ME!, these stories and poems are alive with the sort of magic and fun that children's dreams are made of. In these pages you will meet Aunt Nasty the witch, the boy who bounced, a few magicians, a ghostly girl, a princess who marries a clown and ...

The story of a boy called Norvin who has small sharkish eyes and sharp sharkish teeth. He decides to impersonate a great white man-eating shark so he can have the sea to himself, but his plan misfires when a real female white man-eating shark takes a fancy to him. Review Although very differen...

A family take their beautifully groomed giant poodle for a walk on the beach, who immediately gets into lots of mischief, much to their embarrassment. However, events take an unexpected twist: the family's baby falls in the water and Dashing Dog jumps in and rescues her! Now he looks an utter mess, ...

Previously published as Maddigan's Fantasia, this book ties in with a 13-part children's series, screening in the UK on BBC TV, Channel Nine in Australia and TV3 in NZ in 2006, and includes a colour section of stills from the series. In a time not far from our own, a colourful group of traveller...

Little Mabel blew a bubble and it caused a lot of trouble! Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way. For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table, Where it bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away. Follow the hilarious efforts of the townsfolk as they chase the baby far acr...

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 on a rattly bike - then the wild geese chase them ...Margaret Mahy's witty story, exuberantly illustrated by Selina Young, will deli...

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 supernatural thriller was written by internationally acclaimed New Zealand author Margaret Mahy. 'What we need is a powerful e...

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 help. Detailed line and pastel drawings and a deliciously understated text combine in a very funny picture book.

Collected for the first time, a selection of the magical poetry of Margaret Mahy, stunningly illustrated. Do you know about the Word Witch? Has she cast her spell over you? She can lasso with a limerick, haunt with a haiku and wrap you tight in a rhyme, quick as lightning. Her cauldron is a dicti...

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 be slightly batty, with her talk about hundred free bus rides to the supermarket at the end of the world. How absurd! And yet, rig...

This anthology brings together a selection of stories for children. 30 New Zealand Stories for Children samples some of the best stories for children that New Zealand has to offer. The collection has a lively, up-beat tone that will have both children and adults chuckling. The stories are aimed...

Roland has everything a young man could wish for -- good looks, enough money, a cool relationship with his mother, ready wit, intelligence, a sexy girlfriend, a perfect school record. So the fact that he committed a petty crime and that, somehow, one of his teachers knows about it is something he ca...

Angela May and Tycho Potter couldn't be more different: she is tall and beautiful, confident and carefree; he is short and serious, plain and self-conscious. Angela is popular and sexy, with many boyfriends; Tyke prefers the company of his books and watching the skies through his telescope. Tyke...

Seventeen-year-old Ellis isn't quite sure how he got into this mess, but it's so interesting that he just can't bring himself to get out of it. "Now was the time to say a polite good-bye and make for home. But wouldn't that good-bye be rather like walking out before the end of the film?" O...

" Little Mabel blew a bubble, and it caused a lot of trouble . . ." When little Mabel's bubble gets away from her, it's her baby brother who gets into trouble. Soon he's floating out of the house, above the fence, and all over town! It's up to Mabel, Mother, and the rest of the townspeople to get hi...

Where will your destiny lead you? For as long as he can remember, Heriot Tarbas has been plagued with fits, headaches, dreams, and nightmares that make him feel as if a part of his very self is being torn away. His visions are only whispered about in his quiet life on the family farm. But when the K...

A young boy who agrees to take care of a witch's shadow while she is on vacation finds that having two shadows creates some unexpected problems.

A hero, an ageing magician, a farm boy, a noble daughter and a mad prince meet on the edge of a city of tents. So begins an intricate tale of a boy with a troublesome eye, who is capable of extraordinary things. Forced from home, twelve-year-old Heriot’s unwilling steps lead to Diamond, first ...

"A frothy, effervescent gift." -"Kirkus Reviews, " starred review "Little Mabel blew a bubble and it caused a lot of trouble- / Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way./ For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table, / Where it bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away." Soo...

The man from the land of Fandango is coming to pay you a call! He wears a hat with a tassel and a polka-dot tie - and he juggles and bounces and dances with bears, bison, baboons, kangaroos and even dinosaurs. He's wonderful and amazing - so watch out for him, and watch carefully - because he only a...

Little Mabel blew a bubble and it caused a lot of trouble! Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way. For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table, Where it bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away. Follow the hilarious efforts of the townsfolk as they chase the baby far acr...

Yo ho ho! Pirate stew, plenty of rum, and a festive flare across the sky can only mean one thing - it's time for a great pirate party! Yo ho ho! All across the city, the pirates are getting restless and long for a party. So when a retired pirate comes to babysit for the Terrapin family, they are in ...

"The man from the land of Fandango / Is given to dancing and dreams, / He comes in at the door like a somersault star / And he juggles with junkets and jam in a jar / And custards and caramel creams." Two children paint Mr. Fandango to life, and together the trio has a tremendous adventure with babo...

A legend is born. Heriot has always known that he was different with his terrifying dreams and psychic powers. Ripped from his family farm, he 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 mys...

'Watch the road! Watch the road!' screamed David. 'I don't have to,' Harley replied in a strangled voice. Slumping back in his seat, he took his foot off the accelerator and held his hands away from the wheel. The soft hum of the car's motor did not decrease. The car did not lose speed. If anything,...