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The Christmas Tree Tangle by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: Christmas
Goodness gracious, what do I see?The kitten has climbed the Christmas tree!Climbed so high and climbed so farTo cling with her claws to the Christmas star.Help! A cute little kitten has managed to scale to the very top of the town's Christmas tree. The cat climbs up to rescue her, followed by the dog, t ...Show more
The Dark Blue 100 Ride Bus Ticket by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
When Carlo and his mother, Jessica, accept a free bus ticket from a strange old woman in the supermarket they are really only being polite. Secretly they think she must be slightly batty, with her talk about hundred free bus rides to the supermarket at the end of the world. And yet, right outside their ...Show more
The Great Piratical Rumbustification by Margaret Mahy
17.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction
HUMOROUS STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Yo ho ho! All across the city, the pirates are getting restless and long for a party. So when a retired pirate comes to babysit for the Terrapin family, they are in for quite a surprise... From the rumbustious author and artist team of Margaret Mahy, winner of th ...Show more
The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'Strong and terrifying . . . The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological thriller' - Times Literary Supplement Eight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought it ...Show more
The Haunting Audio CD by Margaret Mahy
30.00 NZD
Category: Senior CDs
Eight-year-old Barney is willing to accept that the ghost of his Great-Uncle Cole might wish to be friends with him, but his family are sceptical. However, some of his older relations admit that there does seem to be something special about the boy. Barney's sister, practical Tabitha, determines to solv ...Show more
The Horrible Story and Others CD by Margaret Mahy
30.00 NZD
Category: CDs & Audio Books
A collection of stories which take place around the home and in the neighbourhood Twenty-one marvellously inventive stories by Carnegie Medal-winning author Margaret Mahy, starting with 'The Horrible Story', about a boy whose chilling tales terrify two older boys. The other stories in this collection in ...Show more
The Horribly Haunted School by Margaret Mahy; Richard Mitchley (Read by)
30.00 NZD
Category: Junior CDs
Monty is allergic to ghosts - if there's one around, he sneezes. When he discovers a ghost named Lulu haunting his home, his mother sends him away to the Brinsley Codd School for Sensible Thought, where she hopes he will learn that there are no such things as spirits.But Monty has only been inside the s ...Show more
The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Sam has an ordinary life - but his mother used to be a pirate! One day at breakfast, they decide to go to sea and an amazing adventure begins. A brand new picture book edition of this timeless favourite.
The Margaret Mahy Collection CD by Margaret Mahy
30.00 NZD
Category: Junior CDs
'... an award-winning children’s author who tested the limits of her readers’ whimsy and courage ... her writing “took one’s breath away” at times ...'The New York TimesSix timeless stories from beloved children's author, Margaret Mahy. These are stories of boundless imagination, exuberant characters, ...Show more
The Moon and Farmer McPhee (PB) by Margaret Mahy
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The cows and sheep think Farmer McPhee should stop frowning and start frisking. But Farmer McPhee just wants to get some sleep! Then one moonlit night, something changes...A collaboration between our best loved writer for children, Margaret Mahy, and the wonderfully quirky illustrator, David Elliot, thi ...Show more
The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage audio CD by Margaret Mahy; Richard Mitchley (Read by)
36.00 NZD
Category: Junior CDs
Captain Lionel Wafer and his fellow-pirates - Toad, Brace-and-Bit and Winkle - are no ordinary ruffians. Clinging to the belief that life should be simple, free and unplanned they set off in a converted teashop of a ship, renamed The Sinful Sausage, to sail backwards and forwards over the bounding blue. ...Show more