Margaret Mahy

Born

in Whakatane, New Zealand

March 21, 1936

Died

July 23, 2012

Genre

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 A ...more

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Margaret Mahy’s books

Average rating: 3.9 · 22,605 ratings · 2,523 reviews · 267 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Changeover 4.06 avg rating — 3,700 ratings — published 1984 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy, Mou-Sien Tseng (Illustrations) 4.18 avg rating — 1,725 ratings — published 1990 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunting 3.85 avg rating — 1,112 ratings — published 1982 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, Polly Dunbar (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tricksters 3.99 avg rating — 759 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy, Jenny Williams (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 1969 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maddigan's Fantasia 3.66 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Catalogue of the Universe by Margaret Mahy, Darren Hopes (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alchemy 3.42 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale by Margaret Mahy, Jonathan Allen (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Margaret Mahy

Cousins Quartet (4 books)
by

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3.41 avg rating — 58 ratings

Iris La Bonga (3 books)
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2.17 avg rating — 6 ratings

Quotes by Margaret Mahy

“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”
― Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

tags: change, changing, growth

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“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
― Margaret Mahy

tags: reading, writing

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“There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?”
― Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

tags: cruelty

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What are your favorite New Zealand picture books?

by Lynley Dodd

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by Eve Sutton

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by Margaret Mahy

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by Pamela Allen

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by Juliette MacIver

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by Gay Hay

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