by Margaret Mahy · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482643304
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«El segrest de la bibliotecària» is an illustrated children's book by Margaret Mahy, published by La Magrana in paperback (32 pages, in Catalan).
Some bandits kidnap the village librarian, Miss Laburnum, to demand a ransom from the town council. While they negotiate, she reads them stories and manages to turn them into enthusiastic readers; her beauty, her intelligence, and a contagious illness end up complicating the kidnapping.
It is part of the Otros La Magrana collection, number 153. Includes illustrations by Quentin Blake. The edition was published on September 17, 2001.
For a children's and young adult audience, with a story that combines humor and a love of reading.
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".
