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Sophie lives with several cats in genteel but dreadful squalor, and has no memory of recent events. A wizards house with coloured windows that look into worlds of treetops and deserts, cloudcastles and diamonds. On the fifth anniversary of his older sisters death, nineteenyearold jonny dart, troubled. Polly dunbar is the creator of penguin, dog blue, and flyaway katie, and illustrated margaret mahy s down the back of the chair. Margaret mahy 19362012 is one of new zealands most celebrated childrens writers. The journals coverage includes the state of the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies of significant books and genres, new developments in theory, the art of illustration, the mass media, and popular culture.
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