Door in the Air, The
106 pages1993YearlingISBN 9780440407744
Children's stories, New ZealandShort storiesShort stories, juvenile literatureChild and youth fiction
About this book
Reader will become enchanted with nine varied worlds--among them realms where wizards grant wishes and wolves dance ballet, where a wind is something to ride and art is something to eat, where some sisters are exact opposites, and other sisters switch roled completely.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Yearling
- Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 106
- ISBN
- 9780440407744
About Unknown Author
Margaret Mahy (born in Whakatane, New Zealand) is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. Her books "The Haunting" and "The Changeover" both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent "Alchemy" in 2002. Among her children's books, "A Lion in the Meadow", "The Seven Chinese Brothers", and "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate" are considered national classics.
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