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The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Margaret Mahy
Illustrated by Jonathan Allen
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:24
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 240
ISBN/Barcode 9781869713614
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
Imprint Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
Publication Date 29 August 2017
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!

Author Biography

Margaret Mahy (Author) Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) is one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers. She is the author of more than 150 titles, which have been translated into many different languages and sold around the world. Appointed to the Order of New Zealand in 1993, Mahy also won many global prizes for children's writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. 'It is in the nature of books, that they have the capacity to make you feel powerful about what you can alter and achieve in your life' - Margaret Mahy Jonathan Allen (Illustrator) Jonathan Allen is an author and illustrator who studied illustration at Pratt Institute and holds a Master's Degree in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has written and illustrated many books, as well as illustrating some of the works of favoured children's author Margaret Mahy.

Reviews

Mahy's amusing tongue-in-cheek tale meets its match in Allen's droll drawings. Norvin's wonderfully shifty eyes and the vivid expressions on the faces of his victims are certain to tickle funnybones. - Publishers Weekly Mahy tells this "Cautionary Tale" in a quietly comic, deceptively simple style inspired by her usual marvelous dry wit. Allen's appropriately cartoon-like illustrations wonderfully extend the humor - Kirkus Review