by Margaret Mahy · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141309460
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«Down in the Dump with Dinsmore» is a children's novel by Margaret Mahy, published by Puffin in paperback (84 pages, in English).
Dinsmore senses that something more than a simple mystery is going on at the dump, so he decides to investigate on his own. The school principal tries to keep him away from the matter, but the boy presses on and encounters unexpected situations until he uncovers a truth the adults preferred to hide.
Part of the Puffin Bites collection, with illustrations by Stephen Axelsen.
Suitable for boys and girls aged 6 and up who are beginning to read in English.
Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".
