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Proof of 'Portable Ghosts' Subtitle: 'there is a ghost in the computer and it's trying to get out'.

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Advertising material for upcoming television shows 'Portable Ghosts' and 'Kaitangata Twitch' based on stories by Magaret Mahy.

Scope and Contents Olympic Brand Writing Pad with 16 separate items, mostly portions of untitled manuscripts. "Down the road, brisk as a cricket…", "Chapter 3. The children started off towards her bicycle, but Cressida stopped…", "Morning passed and the afternoon and the evening came on…", "When you get tired of walking, you may ride on Trottie...", "-reflecting dazzlingly from hundreds of useless miles of diamonds..." "Thys Beynge The Boke of the Loste. An Aranukan Book by Margaret Mahy..." " "There is only...

Scope and Contents Hardcover 2B6 notebook containing various typescript and manuscript stories. Loose typescript pages of 'Aliens in the family', Story planning beginning "Introduce the idea of returning to the jungle of childhood...", "Jane and her mother stepped out of the car...", "There once was a man called Mr Rooster...", Loose pages of typescript with corrections starts "In Joan's garden...", Planning notes "Possibility The line of drawing leads towards the western hills...", "The pale material gave...

Scope and Contents Hardcover Olympic 108 exercise book containing various manuscript stories. "Mr Discombobulous lived in a street called Pomery mile", "A boy called William was walking home from school...", "Lord and Companion in valour said the man...", "Amanda began to think she might be a princess when she got a paper crown out of a cracker...", 'The Funny Funny Clown Face', "Mrs Fish was a widow with rooms to let. Mr harvest and Miss Angel were her lodgers…", 'Mr Pomfrets letter', "Miranda took out her...

Scope and Contents Green Collins Lecture note book student no. 13/80/3 containing various manuscript stories. First item 9 pages of brief reviews of children's books NOT by Margaret Mahy. Chapter from 'The Tricksters' Several pages of poems and/or story ideas. "Old Nanny Mangrove had been an nanny for years and years...", 'The Hairy Stranger', Outline for a story about a family at the bottom of the hill, "Old Miss Penny lived on her own, she liked living on her own...", Loose typescript at back of volume that...

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Press release announcing Margaret Mahy has won the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award.

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File of brochures publicising Margaret Mahy's books and her role in the 1994 Children's Book council of Australia National Conference in Melbourne from 5 to 8 May 1994.

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This series contains any books and other publishing that Margaret had in her filing system and came with the last deposit.

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This series contains Publishers' catalogues of books that feature Margaret Mahy's books and stories.