My Mysterious World

by Margaret Mahy

The author describes her childhood and daily life in New Zealand and her work routines

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1995

About the author

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...

Reviews

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay. Kinda boring.

[Ashley Dement · Rating 1 out of 5]

. My Mysterious World is an autobiography about the life of Margaret Mahy. In her book, Margaret gives a detailed description of her daily routine. She also tells about her profession and lifestyles of her family members. The illustrations in this book are actually photographs that a friend of Margret’s, David Alexander, took in order to accurately display her lifestyle. There were even old photographs from her childhood and sketches she had made displayed in the book, which was unique. I had little interest in this book. It was hard to get excited about because her life did not seem that extraordinary to me. This story could possibly be used to show an example of the lifestyle and setting of a citizen of another country because Margaret lives in New Zealand.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a wonderful life she had.