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The Midnight Story
The Midnight Story (Penguin Children's 60s S.) Mahy, Margaret
- GenresChildrens
64 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Margaret Mahy
400 books291 followersMargaret 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...
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...
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March 15, 2023
The Chewing Gum Rescue - 3 stars - Story about a man who is married to a dentist. She will only allow their 5 daughters to chew gum rather than eating anything sugary. They use the chewing gum to gum up everything in the house, but in the end
The Midnight Story On Griffon Hill - Story about a man who always writes funny stories, but isn't very nice to his kids. One day he writes a sad story instead of a funny story but thinks no-one will want to read it, so he throws it out the window. Later that night he tries to retrieve it, but instead ends up reading the story to a griffin who loves it.
The Travelling Boy And The Stay-At-Home Bird - Story about a boy who wants to travel, but his aunt hates to leave her house. His aunt buys him a pet bird, which comes to replace him so that he can fly off on his travels.
Nothing too exciting really. I'm pretty sure I thought the same the first time I read it.
The Midnight Story On Griffon Hill - Story about a man who always writes funny stories, but isn't very nice to his kids. One day he writes a sad story instead of a funny story but thinks no-one will want to read it, so he throws it out the window. Later that night he tries to retrieve it, but instead ends up reading the story to a griffin who loves it.
The Travelling Boy And The Stay-At-Home Bird - Story about a boy who wants to travel, but his aunt hates to leave her house. His aunt buys him a pet bird, which comes to replace him so that he can fly off on his travels.
Nothing too exciting really. I'm pretty sure I thought the same the first time I read it.
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