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March 30, 2006

Margaret Mahy Wins Hans Christian Anderson Award

Author Margaret Mahy was awarded the 2006 Hans Christian Anderson award, by the International Board of Books for Young People, on March 28. The Hans Christian Anderson award is given every other year to a living author or illustrator whose complete work have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.

Mahy is the author of numerous books including picture books, novels for children and teens, and nonfiction for both children and adults. Mahy is a resident of New Zealand. Her most recent books include:

Alchemy
Seventeen-year-old Roland discovers that an unpopular girl in his school is studying alchemy and finds that their destiny is linked with that of a power-hungry magician. (YA)

Dashing Dog (Illustrated by Sarah Garland)
A dashing dog, brushed-up-and-downery, dare-devil-daring and dog-about-townery dog, is twirled around, ruffled and scuffled and wobbled and whirled around. (Picture Book)

The Horribly Haunted School (Illustrated by Robert Staermose)
Monty is allergic to ghosts; if there's one around, he sneezes. When he discovers a ghost named Lulu haunting his home, his mother sends him away to the Brinsley Codd School for Sensible Thought, where she hopes he will learn that there are no such things as spirits. But Monty has only been inside the school a minute when he starts to sneeze. How can Monty stop believing in ghosts when the school itself turns out to be haunted by the ghost of Brinsley Codd? (Juvenile Fiction)