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	Margaret Mahy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Mahy ONZ (born in Whakatane, New Zealand on 21 March 1936) is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books.
		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.
		Margaret Mahy currently resides on Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Mahy (386 words)

	K6 Biographies - Margaret Mahy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, the oldest of a family of five which is perhaps why family life dominates her various stories.
		Margaret received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Zealand then worked as an assistant librarian, and librarian, in New Zealand and England, and as writerinresidence in Canterbury, England.
		Margaret won the Eshter Glen Medal of the New Zealand Library Association in 1983 for The Haunting.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~dkbrown/k6/mahy.html (178 words)

	MAHY, Margaret
		MAHY, Margaret (1936–), the most acclaimed of New Zealand’s children’s writers, was born and raised in Whakatane, eldest of five children.
		Mahy’s modes are primarily fantasy and adventure, but her witches, dragons, pirates and millionaires do engage with the ordinary world—indeed, she focuses on this engagement.
		Margaret Mahy was honoured as a living icon of New Zealand art as part of the second biennial Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Awards in 2005.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/mahym.html (4739 words)

	Margaret Mahy - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane, a country town in New Zealand, in 1936 and lived there until she was 17.
		Margaret Mahy has twice won the Carnegie Medal, the most prestigious British award for children's literature for THE HAUNTING in 1982 and for THE CHANGEOVER in 1984.
		Margaret Mahy has two grown-up daughters, a baby grand-daughter, several cats, a large garden and a fl woolly poodle.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000020564,00.html?sym=BIO (457 words)

	Juvenile Books Author of the Month
		Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane on the North Island of New Zealand to Frances George and May (Penlington) Mahy.
		Margaret was the oldest in a family of five children.
		Margaret was asked to serve as the writer-in-residence at Canterbury University in 1984 and at the Western Australian College of Advanced Education in 1985.
	www.yourlibrary.ws /Childrens_Webpage/e-author32002.html (921 words)

	papertigers \| interviews
		Margaret Mahy has been writing children's books for the last 30 years, and she'll never tire of it.
		Margaret's interest in children's books continued even when she was at university in Auckland, where she found a children's bookshop which had all the English children's stories she wanted.
		Margaret Mahy's most recent book, 24 Hours, was published by Collins Children's Books in July 2001.
	www.papertigers.org /interviews/archived_interviews/mmahy.html (1137 words)

	Margaret Mahy \| Icon Artist 2005
		Margaret Mahy is a prolific writer of children’s books with an international reputation as a consummate storyteller.
		Margaret’s work has been translated into fifteen languages and won the same Carnegie Medal three times (1982, 1986 and 1987); the Young Observer Fiction Prize (1986); the Italian Premier Grafico Award (1976) and the Dutch Silver Pencil Award (1977).
		Margaret has been appointed a writing fellow in New Zealand and Australia, and in the United States her works have won awards and been included in prestige listings by journal editors, librarians and educationalists.
	www.artsfoundation.org.nz /margaret.html (392 words)

	Margaret Mahy of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If you're not yet acquainted with Margaret Mahy you may be able to guess by now that she writes across the entire juvenile spectrum.
		Mahy has also made a major contribution to the innovative reading program pioneered in New Zealand by writing over sixty school readers and countless stories for the School Journal.
		It is an honor to nominate Margaret Mahy for the first NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.
	www.ou.edu /worldlit/NSK/Mahy.htm (523 words)

	Author Profile: Margaret Mahy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in Whakatane in 1936, Margaret Mahy has lived in New Zealand her entire life.
		Baffled as to how YA author Margaret Mahy manages to perfectly capture adolescent sensibilities without sacrificing an exciting and compelling plotline, Teenreads.com staff writer Audrey Marie Danielson decided to take her query to the source.
		So, after reading 24 HOURS, Mahy's latest, Audrey landed an interview with the author and finally got a chance to ask her about the difficulty of compressing a whole, twisting-turning story into 24 hours, the inspiration behind her book, and what advice she might have for aspiring writers.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-mahy-margaret.asp (2807 words)

	Storylines \| Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane in 1936.
		Margaret's work is popular and celebrated outside of New Zealand, is published in more than 15 languages, and wins awards in the US, UK and Canada, including the Carnegie Medal twice (for "The Haunting" and "The Changeover"), and appears on recommend lists around the world.
		Margaret is a patron of Storylines: Childrens' Literature Foundation of New Zealand.
	www.storylines.org.nz /profile_results.asp?isSearch=true&id=4 (236 words)

	HarperCollins Publishers
		Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand in 1936, the eldest of five children, with a huge extended family in the surrounding neighbourhood, and from the beginning her vivid imagination and love of storytelling sometimes confused reality and fantasy.
		Since then, Margaret has published well over a hundred titles and won several major prizes and awards including the highest honour New Zealand offers, The Order of New Zealand, limited to 20 living people, for her internationally-acclaimed contribution to children’s literature.
		Margaret now lives in a house overlooking Governors Bay in the South Island of New Zealand, which she partly built herself and regularly travels to Europe to promote her books and talk at conferences.
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /authors/default.aspx?id=3651 (309 words)

	The Scoop - Margaret Mahy biographical sketch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A native New Zealander, Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane in 1936.
		Mahy writes for all ages from picture books to teen novels, from fantastical adventures to penetrating insights into today's adolescents.
		Her picture books are full of rollicking good humor, while her older novels reflect an interest in the supernatural and the themes of family relations and coming of age.
	friend.ly.net /users/jorban/biographies/mahymargaret (435 words)

	Mahy 2004
		Mahy raised her two daughters in this house and now it is frequented often by her six grandchildren.
		Mahy is an author other authors wish they were; Tasmanian children’s author Sally Odgers says that Mahy is not one author but four; She writes whimsical picture books, wild, wacky middle readers, intelligent senior children's books and sublime YA fantasy.
		Mahy is equally capable of writing high drama and high farce, of weaving the supernatural into the everyday, as well as drawing sharply realistic depictions of the lives of children and teenagers—not to mention pirates, man-eating sharks and ghosts!
	www.misrule.com.au /mahy_2004.html (1650 words)

	Mahy's fantasia by Gregory O'Brien \| New Zealand Listener
		If Mahy as a figure in New Zealand literature looms larger than life – and not only on account of the Technicolor wig she once wore – her published output is much harder to appraise.
		The book takes us back to Mahy's childhood in Whakatane, where she was born in 1936, and where the advent of World War II "made magical games, jokes and speculations seem indulgent".
		Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life, as the title suggests, is largely peopled by writers, literary agents and publishers.
	www.listener.co.nz /default,4058.sm (729 words)

	Margaret Mahy: Unit Plan [English Online]
		A "Margaret Mahy" learning centre will be set up for students to browse and read and to work independently at learning centre activities.
		On a chart record the examples of language found (Margaret Mahy uses rich language in her writing - add to this chart throughout the unit).
		As a homework activity students will create a hairstyle or a hat, or create their own mask of a clown face or a pirate face etc. to wear during their presentation.The homework activity will be based on the author Margaret Mahy or a character from one of her books.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/margaret_mahy/home.html (1054 words)

	Margaret Mahy - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		New Zealander Margaret Mahy was the first writer from outside the UK to win the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
		Mahy has been influential in changing the landscape of children's literature in her homeland - one of the most prolific of authors, she has penned around a hundred titles to date.
		Margaret is a frequent visitor to schools and libraries, when she's liable to don an animal costume (possibly a penguin, perhaps a possum) or a multi-coloured wig.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000020564,00.html (1600 words)

	Resources for Children's Literature Activities: Margaret Mahy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Margaret Mahy is probably most well known as a writer for young adults.
		Mahyís major life events such as her birth, career as a librarian and writer, note some of her awards, include a few quotes to be discussed informally available from the article found in Something About the Author Volume 69, pages 140-146.
		Mahy got the idea for this story while swimming in a pool.
	www.mcelmeel.com /curriculum/mahy_by_palmer.html (1583 words)

	Amazon.com: HAUNTING, THE: Books: Margaret Mahy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Margaret Mahy is a premiere young adult author.
		Mahy has a way of weaving supernatural elements into the ordinary everyday world and allowing the reader to experience both in a fascinating tapestry.
		I love most of Margaret Mahy's books dearly, including this one, and this is the only one I've read that is clearly "Children's" and not "YA".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440404088?v=glance (1722 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Margaret Mahy
		Mahy, Margaret, Illustrated by: Barker, Carol The Princess and the Clown Publisher: Franklin Watts 1971.
		Mahy, Margaret, Illustrated by Allen, Jonathan BEATEN by a BALLOON Publisher: New York, NY: Viking, 1997.
		Margaret Mahy The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Margaret_Mahy (1188 words)

	Margaret Mahy Medal Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From a trickle to a river -The Margaret Mahy Lecture (published in New Zealand Children's Book Foundation Year Book, 1997).
		A strange way for an adult male to be making a living -The Margaret Mahy Lecture (published in New Zealand Children's Book Foundation Year Book, 1998).
		By the book - Lecture presented at the annual Margaret Mahy Day of the Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand, held in March at the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.
	lib.cce.ac.nz /nzcba/mahy (420 words)

	Margaret Mahy Biography / Biography of Margaret Mahy Author and Artists for Young Adults Biography
		New Zealand author Margaret Mahy has made a career of tickling funny bones, teasing the imagination, and sending shivers up spines of young readers.
		James Guide to Children's Writers, "one of the most distinguished contemporary writers for children." Mahy's nearly two hundred publications comprise the full gamut of books for young readers: picture books for the very young, chapter books and readers, short stories and novels for middle grader readers, and young adult novels and story collections.
		Her themes vary from fantastical tales of possibility and wonder, to gritty realistic novels, to supernatural tales and family problem novels.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-margaret-mahy-aya (234 words)

	Margaret Mahy Collection launched at Canterbury Public Library - Christchurch City Council Media Release, 1998
		Internationally acclaimed children’s writer Margaret Mahy will officially open the Margaret Mahy Collection of New Zealand Children’s Books at the Central Children’s Library on Monday 30 March from 9.30 -10.00 am.
		About 50 children from local schools are expected to attend the opening ceremony, which will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to meet Margaret Mahy and have books signed.
		New Zealand’s most prestigious award for children’s literature is named after Esther Glen, so it is particularly fitting that the Collection honours one of this country’s leading writers, Margaret Mahy.
	archived.ccc.govt.nz /MediaReleases/1998/Mahy.asp (281 words)

	Interview with Margaret Mahy Page 1
		This interview with Margaret Mahy took place in 1994 when she was in Australia for the Children's Book Council of Australia Conference.
		Of course, it's very unfortunate when that takes over too much and you find that people are living their fantasies in inappropriate ways.
		The fantasies of people like that, they do exist, only often in those cases you don't choose to regard them as fantasies because the people that they're operating with — such an enormously pragmatic realism that you don't associate them with fantasy but the fantasy is still there.
	www.misrule.com.au /mahy.html (1693 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Horribly Haunted School
		From New Zealand, Margaret Mahy has been writing since she was seven.
		Margaret Mahy has won the Carnegie Medal twice and New Zealand's Esther Glen Award five times.
		This is the second of Margaret Mahy's books illustrated by Robert Staermose, and his amusing illustrations mesh well with her style of storytelling.
	www.sfsite.com /07a/skol36.htm (456 words)

	Margaret Mahy - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Margaret Mahy - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		This book was called A LION IN THE MEADOW and when she first held the book and opened it up, it suddenly seemed to her that she had been trying to write a book for as long as she could remember.
		Now Margaret often works on more than one book at a time, writing stories suitable for little children along with novels for children of about twelve or thirteen.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000020564,00.html?... (457 words)

	Margaret Mahy- NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
		Excluded are books for younger children that have not been reviewed, readers, and Margaret Mahy's reviews of other writers' books.
		Mahy Magic: a collection of the most magical stories from the Margaret Mahy storybooks.
		'Margaret Mahy.' New Zealand Official Yearbook 1993; p.243.
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mahy.htm (3020 words)

	Scoop: Margaret Mahy to Announce Schools Poetry Winner
		Famed children’s writer Margaret Mahy will present this year’s Bell Gully National Schools Poetry Award, to be announced at Victoria University in August 2004.
		About Margaret Mahy Described as the most acclaimed of New Zealand’s children’s writers, Margaret Mahy’s work has been translated into 15 languages.
		Margaret devotes a great deal of time to her many readers, replying to all letters she receives and frequently visiting schools and libraries (sometimes in fancy dress).
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/ED0406/S00034.htm (1364 words)

	marvellouscodes
		And when, pushed by no matter what sort of force from outside, we fall into the cracks in the structure, we immediately start to compose stories to bridge the crack or fill it in so we can walk out of it safely.
		Margaret Mahy is one of the great New Zealand writers.
		Essays include: ‘Solid All the Way Through: Margaret Mahy’s Ordinary Witches’, ‘Telling Stories of Desire: The Power of Authorship in The Changeover and The Amber Spyglass’ and ‘Gardening in Eden: Margaret Mahy’s Postcolonial Ghosts and the New Zealand Landscape’.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /vup/recenttitles/marvellouscodes.htm (342 words)

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