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The rattlebang picnic

The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure.

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Main Author: Mahy, Margaret
Other Authors: Kellogg, Steven (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1994.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Picnicking > Juvenile fiction.
Automobiles > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
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Summary:The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : coll. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:0803713185 (trade)
0803713193 (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.

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