The Boy Who Was Followed Home
4.5
(2 ratings)36 pages1975Puffin BooksISBN 9780803709034
About this book
A witch's pill is supposed to cure Robert of the hippopotami who follow him home from school--but there is one disadvantage to the treatment.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 36
- ISBN
- 9780803709034
- Language
- en
About Margaret Mahy
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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