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The Moon and Farmer McPhee
The cows and sheep think Farmer McPhee should stop frowning and start frisking. But Farmer McPhee just wants to get some sleep! Then one moonlit night, something changes...
A collaboration between New Zealand's best loved writer for children, Margaret Mahy, and the wonderfully quirky illustrator, David Elliot, The Moon and Farmer McPhee is a magical and heart-warming book.
A collaboration between New Zealand's best loved writer for children, Margaret Mahy, and the wonderfully quirky illustrator, David Elliot, The Moon and Farmer McPhee is a magical and heart-warming book.
- GenresPicture Books
33 pages, Hardcover
First published November 5, 2010
About the author
Margaret Mahy
395 books272 followersMargaret Mahy was 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: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. There have 100 children's books, 40 novels, and 20 collections of her stories published. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addition, some stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Icelandic.
For her contributions to children's literature she was made a member of the Order of New Zealand. The Margaret Mahy Medal Award was established by the New Zealand Children's Book Foundation in 1991 to provide recognition of excellence in children's literature, publishing and literacy in New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award (known as the Little Nobel Prize) in recognition of a "lasting contribution to children's literature".
Margaret Mahy died on 23 July 2012.
On 29 April 2013, New Zealand’s top honour for children’s books was renamed the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret...
Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. There have 100 children's books, 40 novels, and 20 collections of her stories published. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addition, some stories have been translated into Russian, Chinese and Icelandic.
For her contributions to children's literature she was made a member of the Order of New Zealand. The Margaret Mahy Medal Award was established by the New Zealand Children's Book Foundation in 1991 to provide recognition of excellence in children's literature, publishing and literacy in New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award (known as the Little Nobel Prize) in recognition of a "lasting contribution to children's literature".
Margaret Mahy died on 23 July 2012.
On 29 April 2013, New Zealand’s top honour for children’s books was renamed the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret...
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
February 16, 2013
Love the illustrations.
August 7, 2013
Moon madness seduces the tired, grumpy farmer!.
This book is Margaret Mahy at her best - and when she's sparking on all cylinders there's nothing can touch her. The illustrations are just exactly right as well.
This book wins on all counts - not only is it a picture book that I could read every day to my grandchildren, but my grandchildren also love it. Over the last couple of months I've been deliberately taking note of our comparative opinions on books, and it's been really interesting to see how often we don't agree. I've been aware before, obviously, of books that I love but they don't, and vice versa, but this focus has highlighted it. I now know which books to cull if I don't have enough shelf space in my upcoming new accommodation - the ones we don't agree on; and I know which to keep - any that both I and the kiddies love.
I might also have to spend some dollars and buy this particular book. It really is a keeper.
This book is Margaret Mahy at her best - and when she's sparking on all cylinders there's nothing can touch her. The illustrations are just exactly right as well.
This book wins on all counts - not only is it a picture book that I could read every day to my grandchildren, but my grandchildren also love it. Over the last couple of months I've been deliberately taking note of our comparative opinions on books, and it's been really interesting to see how often we don't agree. I've been aware before, obviously, of books that I love but they don't, and vice versa, but this focus has highlighted it. I now know which books to cull if I don't have enough shelf space in my upcoming new accommodation - the ones we don't agree on; and I know which to keep - any that both I and the kiddies love.
I might also have to spend some dollars and buy this particular book. It really is a keeper.
February 9, 2013
I loved The Moon and Farmer McPhee. Bought it for my grandson the minute it came out. Margaret's way with words and engaging slipping in of "moral' questions is at its best here (how we miss her). But equally I love David Elliot's illustrations. I think they are in every way an equal part of the magic of this book. If you haven't read other's of his, you (and your children and grandchildren) are missing out. )
February 23, 2013
As always with a book by Margaret Mahy the language is a pleasure to read with a good dose of magic, and a terrific message thrown in for good measure. David Elliot's illustrations suit the story perfectly. The flaps work for the story but might easily come to grief in what surely must become a much read book.
March 9, 2013
Really clever use of the cut-out panels and fold out pages. Fun story.
August 8, 2015
Brilliant story and illustrations. Some of the pages have windows to the next and barn doors opening. Great farm animal story.
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