Margaret Mahy Report

Margaret Mahy, 76, was a famous former librarian at a one of the public libraries in New Zealand.  She was also a teacher.  She had cancer that started early April and died of it on the 23 July 2012 at 3pm.  She was a great author in New Zealand.  She has 2 sisters that are older and she also had a younger brother.  She has one daughter.

She wrote her first book when she was 7 and it’s called “Bad Harry.”  She has since written over 200 book, but only 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories were published.  Her books were translated into 15 different languages.

In 1980 Margaret Mahy became a full time author and went on to win numerous awards and honours for her country.  She also won premier children’s book awards.

When She was a little girl her mother forced her to bring, buy, fetch and carry everything around Governors bay in Christchurch, which was her home town.

John Key was at her funeral and it was a sad day for New Zealand.

By Cameron F

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If I could ...

If I could …

If I could go back in time it would be to when I stayed at Heath’s house.  I would redo our nerf war when I threw that grenade.  I would look at my aim for my shot.  I made my base out of sticks and Heath thought I was a bush and hid at the bottom of the sticks and leaves.  I left a little hole to shoot through.  But, I missed and he found me and tried to shoot me.  But, they just got stuck in the twigs.  But I got more ammo.  I would shoot them all!

By Byron

If I could ...

If I could be the best of the best I would be famous and rich.  I could be on the TV just like Hamish Carter and the other people that are going to the 2012 Olympics.  They have been selected because they want to be famous just like Hamish Carter.  He competed in 2004.  Sarah Ulmer was the fastest biker in New Zealand.  When she was a little kid she did not like sports at all.  One day she got a bike and she started to bike around everyday.  One day she hopped on her bike and rode it as fast as she could.  She practised everyday.  She had 5 hours practising until she got older.  She got selected to go the Olympics 3 times!

By Reef.