Books by Margaret Mahy
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review 1: What a fun book! It is full of wit, absurdity and suspense as the baby brother trapped in the bubble gloats through the sky with the entire town trying to figure out how to get him down safely. The rhyming text keeps the story moving quickly and is printed in a whirling, swirling...
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review 1: I gave this 110 pages and had to give up--1.5 stars. There were some interesting and promising parts, but overall there were too many "huh?" moments in the writing--where things were not described or explained properly, or were explained too late, so I was completely disoriented ...
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review 1: 2 Stars, I know HARSH but it got 2 stars because the writing was excellent and really well thought out put together. The pictures are good, but all the rhyming and the endless prattling was obnoxious! It seemed like it took forever to read and it was just a mouthful. It was clea...
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review 1: So much of Mahy I've always enjoyed. My two faves being The Haunting and The Changeover. I have some idea of the kind of thing to expect from this author as far as her treatment of magic and transformation within a story. However, I can't give this fantasy more than three star...