http://www.hbook.com/2012/10/authors-illustrators/rembering-margaret-mahy-march-21-1936-july-23-2012/ 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/2012/10/authors-illustrators/rembering-margaret-mahy-march-21-1936-july-23-2012/#comment-29472 Review of The Man from the 
Land of Fandango - The Horn Book Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:30:37 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=18772#comment-29472 [...] it comes to contemporary nonsense verse, no one wrote it better than the late Margaret Mahy (see Susan Cooper’s reminiscence of her friend). With this latest offering, Mahy places herself right up there with the nineteenth-century masters [...] [...] it comes to contemporary nonsense verse, no one wrote it better than the late Margaret Mahy (see Susan Cooper’s reminiscence of her friend). With this latest offering, Mahy places herself right up there with the nineteenth-century masters [...]

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2012/10/authors-illustrators/rembering-margaret-mahy-march-21-1936-july-23-2012/#comment-19847 The Horn Book Magazine — November/December 2012 — The Horn Book Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:43:17 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=18772#comment-19847 [...] Remembering Margaret Mahy March 21, 1936–July 23, 2012. [...] [...] Remembering Margaret Mahy March 21, 1936–July 23, 2012. [...]

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2012/10/authors-illustrators/rembering-margaret-mahy-march-21-1936-july-23-2012/#comment-19566 Top Picks Thursday 10-25-2012 « The Author Chronicles Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:10:42 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=18772#comment-19566 [...] Cooper writes a lovely tribute to Margaret Mahy, while Stephen King freaks out Canadian high school [...] [...] Cooper writes a lovely tribute to Margaret Mahy, while Stephen King freaks out Canadian high school [...]

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2012/10/authors-illustrators/rembering-margaret-mahy-march-21-1936-july-23-2012/#comment-19066 leda Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:29:02 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=18772#comment-19066 Thank you, Susan, for this tribute. I was lucky enough to see Margaret Mahy speak a few times, and I read almost all of her books. How I wish I could have been a fly on the wall (but one who could drink Scotch) that night you two met. Thank you for telling us more about her, and I wish she could have lived forever, or as long as she wanted to. My deep sympathy to you. Thank you, Susan, for this tribute. I was lucky enough to see Margaret Mahy speak a few times, and I read almost all of her books. How I wish I could have been a fly on the wall (but one who could drink Scotch) that night you two met. Thank you for telling us more about her, and I wish she could have lived forever, or as long as she wanted to. My deep sympathy to you.

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2012/10/authors-illustrators/rembering-margaret-mahy-march-21-1936-july-23-2012/#comment-19020 Terry Caszatt Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:47:30 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=18772#comment-19020 This is a wonderful, warm snapshot of a "working writer," someone who stayed bravely at the keys through good days and bad. Apparently Ms. Mahy was rewarded (if that's the right word for someone so obviously independent) with medals, awards, and so forth, but what emerges in Susan Cooper's appealing portrait is a fine artist of the highest order, a woman who stayed fiercely true to the work and to herself. All of us are poorer by her passing, but especially are the young flowers of the field - the children. Thank you, Susan Cooper, for using your own gifts for lively prose, to bring us Margaret Mahy in the most real, touchingly human way. This is a wonderful, warm snapshot of a “working writer,” someone who stayed bravely at the keys through good days and bad. Apparently Ms. Mahy was rewarded (if that’s the right word for someone so obviously independent) with medals, awards, and so forth, but what emerges in Susan Cooper’s appealing portrait is a fine artist of the highest order, a woman who stayed fiercely true to the work and to herself. All of us are poorer by her passing, but especially are the young flowers of the field – the children. Thank you, Susan Cooper, for using your own gifts for lively prose, to bring us Margaret Mahy in the most real, touchingly human way.

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