The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale

Author(s): Margaret Mahy

NZ Picture Books

Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!


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Mahy's amusing tongue-in-cheek tale meets its match in Allen's droll drawings. Norvin's wonderfully shifty eyes and the vivid expressions on the faces of his victims are certain to tickle funnybones. - Publishers Weekly Mahy tells this "Cautionary Tale" in a quietly comic, deceptively simple style inspired by her usual marvelous dry wit. Allen's appropriately cartoon-like illustrations wonderfully extend the humor - Kirkus Review

Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) is one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers. She is the author of more than 150 titles, which have been translated into many different languages and sold around the world. Appointed to the Order of New Zealand in 1993, Mahy also won many global prizes for children's writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. Jonathan Allen is an author and illustrator of many children's books. He attended Central Saint Martins art school in London. Jonathan has illustrated four books with Margaret Mahy: The Three-Legged Cat, Simply Delicious!, Beaten by a Balloon and The Great White Man-Eating Shark.

General Fields

  • : 9781869713614
  • : Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
  • : Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
  • : 0.3
  • : August 2017
  • : 250mm X 250mm
  • : August 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Margaret Mahy
  • : Paperback
  • : Jonathan Allen
  • : 823