Eleven favourite stories from the late, great Margaret Mahy. Plus a CD of
Margaret reading her favourite stories. Enjoyed by all ages!
These are stories of boundless imagination, exuberant characters, magical
language and priceless humour.
This treasury contains eleven favourite Mahy stories.
A Lion in the Meadow
The Witch in the Cherry Tree
A Summery Saturday Morning
The Great Piratical Rumbustification
The Boy with Two Shadows
The Great White Mat-Eating Shark
Jam
The Three-Legged Cat
The Boy who was Followed Home
The Librarian and the Robbers
The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate
These beautifully illustrated stories are childhood essentials. Age 5+
The CD includes the following 6 books in audio version,
read by Margaret Mahy:
The Boy Who Was Followed Home, The Boy With Two Shadows, Jam, A Summery
Saturday Morning, The Three Legged Cat and The Witch in the Cherry Tree .
Author biography
Margaret Mahy (1936–2012 ) is the most acclaimed of New
Zealand’s children’s writers. The author of more than 120 titles, and
translated into 15 languages, Margaret has readers across the globe. She worked
as a librarian for more than 10 years before becoming a full-time writer.
Mahy’s books ring with humour, fantasy, adventure, science and the
supernatural, but always engage with the ordinary world. Awarded the Order of
New Zealand in 1993, she also won many of the world’s major prizes for
children’s writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans
Christian Andersen Award.