by Margaret Mahy · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140554243
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«The Great White Man-eating Shark» is the children's picture book by Margaret Mahy, published by Puffin in paperback (32 pages, in English).
Norvin is a child actor with an astonishing resemblance to a shark and a great fondness for swimming. He decides to use his appearance to scare away bathers and keep the waters of Caramel Cove to himself, but his cunning plan goes wrong and the situation takes a comic turn. A fun story with a moral.
With illustrations by Jonathan Allen. Originally published in 1989 and nominated for the California Young Readers Medal in 1993.
A tale aimed at children around 5 years old, ideal for early readers and shared 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".
