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Down the dragon's tongue

When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide.

Main Author: Mahy, Margaret.
Other Authors: MacCarthy, Patricia. (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Orchard Books, 2000.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Subjects:
Playgrounds > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0531302725 (alk. paper)
Author Notes: Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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