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Made in New Zealand: place and enchantment in Margaret Mahy's picture books

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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Clare BradfordClare Bradford
Margaret Mahy published over a hundred picture books from A Lion in the Meadow in 1969 to a cluster of posthumous texts. This article considers the extent to which Mahy’s picture books can be said to have been “made in New Zealand,” given that most have been illustrated by artists from other countries, particularly Britain. Mahy’s picture book narratives are, I argue, informed by values, assumptions and orientations toward the natural world which subtly but unmistakably locate protagonists in New Zealand, even when the books’ illustrations reflect British, American or Canadian geographic and cultural settings. In this sense Mahy’s picture books are transnational products, traversing national and cultural boundaries.

History

Journal

Children's literature association quarterly

Volume

39

Issue

1

Season

Spring

Pagination

111 - 120

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Location

Baltimore, Maryland

ISSN

0885-0429

eISSN

1553-1201

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, Johns Hopkins University Press

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