Speech 'Building Bridges through Children's Books' given by Margaret Mahy during a 1995 United States Board on Books for Young People conference with the theme 'The World at Our Doorstep: Building Bridges of Understanding Through Children's and Young Adult Books'. Typescript with handwritten annotations in blue and black ink, appears to be incomplete.

Later published in 'Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature' Volume 34, No. 4, Winter 1996 under the title ‘The Writer in New Zealand: Building Bridges through Children’s Books’.