The Margaret Mahy Treasury (Includes CD)

Eleven favourite stories from the late, great Margaret Mahy. Plus a CD of Margaret reading her favourite stories. Enjoyed by all ages! These are stories of boundless imagination, exuberant characters, magical language and priceless humour. This treasury contains eleven favourite Mahy stories. A Lion in the Meadow The Witch in the Cherry Tree A Summery Saturday Morning The Great Piratical Rumbustification The Boy with Two Shadows The Great White Mat-Eating Shark Jam The Three-Legged Cat The Boy who was Followed Home The Librarian and the Robbers The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate These beautifully illustrated stories are childhood essentials. Age 5+ The CD includes the following 6 books in audio version, read by Margaret Mahy: The Boy Who Was Followed Home, The Boy With Two Shadows, Jam, A Summery Saturday Morning, The Three Legged Cat and The Witch in the Cherry Tree . Author biography Margaret Mahy (1936–2012 ) is the most acclaimed of New Zealand’s chil­dren’s writer­s. The author of more than 120 titles, and translated into 15 languages, Margaret has readers across the globe. She worked as a librarian for more than 10 years before becoming a full-time writer. Mahy’s books ring with humour, fantasy, adventure, science and the supernatural, but always engage with the ordinary world. Awarded the Order of New Zealand in 1993, she also won many of the world’s major prizes for children’s writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award.