Margaret Mahy also won the yearly Carnegie Medal twice. This award is for the best children's book by a British author. She won it for The Haunting (1982) and for The Changeover (1984). Only seven writers have ever won two Carnegie Medals. Some of her children's books, like A Lion in the Meadow, The Seven Chinese Brothers, and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate, are considered classics in New Zealand. Her novels have been translated into many languages around the world.
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