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Children's author Margaret Mahy describes her home in New Zealand, her life as a writer, and the way she writes.Tags
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Genre: Autobiography
Age Appropriateness: Kindergarten-2nd
Media: Photographs
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Margaret Mahy reveals to her readers a little bit of her life. She includes where she lives, who some of her family is, and what a typical day for her looks like. She also explains a bit about her writing and her books.
This is a good and very basic autobiography. Margaret includes a lot of general information about her life that is useful for a reader who wants to know about her.
Age Appropriateness: Kindergarten-2nd
Media: Photographs
Review/Critique:
Margaret Mahy reveals to her readers a little bit of her life. She includes where she lives, who some of her family is, and what a typical day for her looks like. She also explains a bit about her writing and her books.
This is a good and very basic autobiography. Margaret includes a lot of general information about her life that is useful for a reader who wants to know about her.
Summary: This is an autobiography of a woman who is an author. It describes where she lives and who she lives with. It tells about her likes of animals and family. It describes how a lot of the places where she lives are used in the books she writes for children. It also shows her illustration abilities and how comical she can be.
Genre: this story is an autobiography. It is an autobiography because it is about a woman who describes her life and the way she lives it. It describes her job, family and living situation. It is a good autobiography because it is written in a way that children can understand and want to learn more.
Characterization: Margaret Mahy is the main character! She is funny and smart. This story really shows her true show more colors in that she can be serious but she enjoys having a good time and creating new stories. She is dynamic and fun and a joy to read about.
Media: photographs and pencil illustrations show less
Genre: this story is an autobiography. It is an autobiography because it is about a woman who describes her life and the way she lives it. It describes her job, family and living situation. It is a good autobiography because it is written in a way that children can understand and want to learn more.
Characterization: Margaret Mahy is the main character! She is funny and smart. This story really shows her true show more colors in that she can be serious but she enjoys having a good time and creating new stories. She is dynamic and fun and a joy to read about.
Media: photographs and pencil illustrations show less
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Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- My Mysterious World
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