‘She was the cherished children’s author living in our own backyard. A resident of Governors Bay for half a century, Margaret Mahy wrote picture books, novels, short story collections and poems. Her unlimited imagination made her one of 12 “Christchurch heroes” immortalised as a bronze bust at the Arts Centre. She was an obsessive reader who became a librarian, writing children’s stories in her spare hours until she could afford to go fulltime. A mother of two, a grandmother of seven.’ Read More
