http://www.hbook.com/2012/07/news/obituaries-news/margaret-mahy-1936-2012/ Publications about books for children and young adults Mon, 13 May 2013 16:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.hbook.com/2012/07/news/obituaries-news/margaret-mahy-1936-2012/#comment-19012 Rembering Margaret Mahy: March 21, 1936-July 23, 2012 — The Horn Book Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:59:41 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=15321#comment-19012 [...] There was never anyone quite like her. Other amazing children’s writers have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, but none had her extra‑ordinary range: verse; picture-book texts; books for every conceivable age group; scripts for radio, television, film; serials for newspapers and magazines. “I have been such a tradesman all my professional writing life,” she said once. But for the word tradesman, read wizard. [...] [...] There was never anyone quite like her. Other amazing children’s writers have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, but none had her extra‑ordinary range: verse; picture-book texts; books for every conceivable age group; scripts for radio, television, film; serials for newspapers and magazines. “I have been such a tradesman all my professional writing life,” she said once. But for the word tradesman, read wizard. [...]

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