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 LIANZA Esther Glen Award.
Author Biography
Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand and has loved telling stories all her life. She is acknowledged all over the world as one of the outstanding children's writers of today, and has published over 200 titles. Twice winner of the Carnegie Medal (The Haunting, 1982, and The Changeover, 1984), several of her titles have become modern classics. Other major awards include The Order of New Zealand, for her contribution to children's literature, and the Hans Christian Andersen medal, which is the highest international recognition granted to authors and illustrators of children's books. Margaret lives in the South Island of New Zealand, in a house which she partially built herself, overlooking Governor's Bay.
