Margaret Mahy was a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. There have 100 children's books, 40 novels, and 20 collections of her stories published. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addition, some stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Icelandic. For her contributions to children's literature she was made a member of the Order of New Zealand. The Margaret Mahy Medal Award was established by the New Zealand Children's Book Foundation in 1991 to provide recognition of excellence in children's literature, publishing and literacy in New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award (known as the Little Nobel Prize) in recognition of a "lasting contribution to children's literature". Margaret Mahy died on 23 July 2012. On 29 April 2013, New Zealand’s top honour for children’s books was renamed the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award. For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret...
Series
Books
It's Great to Be Eight
2000
The Queen's Goat
1991
Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom!
1996
The Word Witch
The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy
2009
My Wonderful Aunt
1988
The Horribly Haunted School
1997
The Pirates' Mixed-up Voyage
1988
The Riddle of the Frozen Phantom
2002
Down The Dragon's Tongue
2000
The Girl with the Green Ear
Stories About Magic in Nature
1992
Chocolate Porridge
1973
Shock Forest
2004
Catalogue of the Universe
1985
Ultra-Violet Catastrophe! Or, The Unexpected Walk with Great-Uncle Magnus Pringle
1975
The Gargling Gorilla
2003
Tale of a Tail
2014
A Fortunate Name
1993
Busy Day for a Good Grandmother
1993
Keeping House
1991
The Birthday Burglar & A Very Wicked Headmistress
1988
Tingleberries, Tuckertubs and Telephones
1996
Memory
1987
Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles
1981
The Three Legged Cat
1993
Pillycock's Shop
1969
Underrunners
1992
The Great Piratical Rumbustification
2012
The Door in the Air and Other Stories
1988
Great Piratical Rumbustification & the Librarian and the Robbers
1978
Jam by Margaret Mahy (4-Mar-1991) Paperback
2025
Alchemy
2003
The Man from the Land of Fandango
2012
The Boy with Two Shadows
1971
The Boy Who Was Followed Home
1975
The Little Witch
1970
The Witch in the Cherry Tree
1974
The Changeover
1984
Beaten by a Balloon
1878
The Seven Chinese Brothers
1990
Footsteps Through the Fog
2012
Jam
1985
A Lion in the Meadow
1969
The Rattlebang Picnic
1994
Leaf Magic
1976
Dangerous Spaces
1991
The Five Sisters
1997
Kaitangata Twitch
2005
A Summery Saturday Morning
1998
Making Friends
1990
The Other Side of Silence
1995
24 Hours
2000
Bubble Trouble
1992
Simply Delicious!
1999
The Boy Who Made Things Up
2014
The Girl Who Washed in Moonlight
1987
The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate
1985
17 Kings and 42 Elephants
1972
Down the Back of the Chair
2006
Heriot
2010
Dashing Dog!
2002
Nonstop nonsense
1977
Organ Music
1997
The Pumpkin Man and the Crafty Creeper
1990
Mister Whistler
2012
The Chewing-Gum Rescue & Other Stories
1988
The Horrendous Hullabaloo
1992
The Tricksters
1986
The Good Fortunes Gang
1993
The Moon and Farmer McPhee
2010
The Downhill Crocodile Whizz and Other Stories
1986
Maddigan's Fantasia
2005
The Magician of Hoad
2008
The Haunting
1982
The Green Bath
2013
The Christmas Tree Tangle
1994
The Greatest Show off Earth
1994
The Great White Man-Eating Shark
A Cautionary Tale
1989
