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Down the back of the chair

A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.

Main Author: Mahy, Margaret.
Other Authors: Dunbar, Polly (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Clarion Books, 2006.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Subjects:
Chairs > Juvenile fiction.
Lost and found possessions > Juvenile fiction.
Poor > Juvenile fiction.
Stories in rhyme.
Summary: A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.
Physical Description: 29 p. : col. col. ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 0618693955 (lib. bdg.)
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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