An article in the book 'Household Gods, New Zealand Cats at home' based on an interview with Margaret Mahy about her cats. The article is titled 'Domino, Orsino, Basil and Sabbath with Margaret Mahy' and covers pages 16-21.

New Zealand : yesterday and today with dust jacket

Three newspaper clippings featuring interviews with Margaret Mahy. The Dominion Post 5 April 2008, The New Zealand Herald 10 January 2012 and the Stratford Press 29 June 1988.

This series contains any other sorts of newpaper and or journal articles kept by Margaret Mahy but not necessarily directly related to her writing output.

Cambridge Note book yellow cover containing draft rhymes and poems and Ideas for stories: Someone make a cake The dogs bath day A kingdom of frogs The Library Dear Mrs Castle Castles beneath the plum tree I'm a man with a wife and 3 children Begin with the earthquake Televisions gone still we carry on A hero of sorts

Tan coloured Pacific memo notebook containing ideas and outlines for several stories. Notes for 'Secret lives', 'The Haunted Car', 'Formby' …project writing a book, 'Go to the cemetery', The Chiming clock in Foley mall, Some notes at rear of the book about "Hoad" and "Water". Two pages with notes of family names and friends names. A loose slip of paper with The idea of a child who draws on walls.

Notebook with story outlines for Sunshine books, Poems and note of "Glenorchy" Queenstown visit etc, A few notes that might be useful to Heriot Japanese artifacts.

School exercise book containing Margaret Mahy's notes on her personal experiences of writing, her processes and about writing for both younger an older children. References 'Heriot', 'Catalogue of the Universe', 'The Changeover' and 'Memory'.

Small Wrightson branded notebook containing very brief notes on various stories including, Vasco, Heriot, a Cake shop, The embarrassing grandmother. At rear of notebook are several pages of notes about The hero’s journey i.e. the hero of a story and roll of myth in stories, ideas possibly drawn from 'The Hero's Journey', Joseph Campbell.

Oceania' , Kids TV Ltd. File regarding productions with Kids TV, particularly 'Oceania'. Includes concept art for 'Oceania'.