- Children's stories, Imagination, Juvenile fiction, Picture books
Mother didn't believe the little boy's tales about a dragon and lion in the meadow, but to the boy the creatures were very real.
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Intimate, classical in form, spare and warm.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Margaret Mahy
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 28
- Publisher
- Everyman Ltd, Amulet Books, Dent
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780879514464
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Margaret Mahy (born in Whakatane, New Zealand) is 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" both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent "Alchemy" in 2002. Among her children's books, "A Lion in the Meadow", "The Seven Chinese Brothers", and "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate" are considered national classics.
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