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Kaitangata Twitch by Margaret Mahy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
The brooding island of Kaitangata lies just across the water from Meredith's home. It seems to have a supernatural presence, a will and a voice of its own, although only Meredith can hear it. Can Meredith save the island from an unscrupulous developer? How could the dreamer of the family succeed where ...Show more
Leaf Magic and Five Other Favourites by Margaret Mahy; Margaret Chamberlain (Illustrator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: very good
Once upon a future time, a circus troupe seeks to cross a post-apocalyptic landscape. Garland Maddigan (12), daughter of the late ringmaster, has travelled this way previously - but this time it offers more challenges than expected. When three mysterious children join the Fantasia, they prove a dangerou ...Show more
Maddigan's Quest by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: good
In a time not too far from our own, a colourful and bizarre group of travellers brave a post apocalyptic landscape - the acrobats, clowns, trapeze artists, jugglers and musicians who make up Maddigan's Fantasia. At the centre of the troupe is 12-year-old Garland, daughter of the late Ferdy Maddigan, Fan ...Show more
Memory by Margaret Mahy
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
On the anniversary of his sister's death, Jonny Dart is still troubled by guilt and an imperfect memory of the accident. He goes searching for the only other witness to the fatal event, his sister's best friend. But instead of finding the answers, he finds Sophie - an old woman with Alzheimer's. Paperba ...Show more
Mister Whistler by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
Absentminded Mister Whistler always has a song in his head and a dance in his feet. In a rush to catch the train, he is so distracted he loses his ticket. Is it in the bottom pockets of his big coat or the top pockets of his jacket? Perhaps he slipped it into his waistcoat...Where is Mister Whistler's t ...Show more
Nonstop Nonsense by Margaret Mahy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics
Wonderfully witty and delightfully silly collection of stories and rhyming nonsense from all-star author and artist team, Margaret Mahy and Quentin Blake. Readers meet the man from Fandango who pays a visit once every five hundred years, the word wizard who casts his spell over the Delmonico family, and ...Show more
Nonstop Nonsense (HB) by Margaret Mahy
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
A joyful jumble of poems, songs and stories. The full colour gift edition of this wonderfully witty and delightfully silly collection of stories and rhyming nonsense from all-star author and artist team, Margaret Mahy and Quentin Blake. Poems, prose and rhymes from bestselling author Margaret Mahy, and ...Show more
Portable Ghosts by Margaret Mahy
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Ditta is a smart sassy 12-year-old who wants to be a detective - and when she encounters a ghostly boy reading in a mysterious corner of her school library she has her first mystery to solve. But when her best friend Max tells her the bedroom floor in his brand new house is haunted too, the mysteries st ...Show more
Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles by Margaret Mahy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
Tale of a Tail by Margaret Mahy
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Strange and exciting things are in store when Tom and his mum move to Prodigy Street one ordinary Thursday. There's a man with a magical name, a friendly dog with a powerful, waggy tail, and some remarkable surprises when anyone makes a wish.
The Boy Who Made Things Up by Margaret Mahy; Lily Emo
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
'Shall we just walk along, Dad, or shall we make some of it up?'Join Michael and his over-worked dad as they journey home one fun-filled afternoon.Overflowing with imagination, this wondrous and beautiful book is from the celebrated children's writer Margaret Mahy and award-winning illustrator Lily Emo. ...Show more