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Margaret Mary Cumming Mayo
BornMargaret Mary Cumming
(1935-05-10) 10 May 1935 (age 89)
London, England
Pen nameMargaret Mayo
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Period1974 – present
GenreChildren's literature
SpousePeter Robin Mayo
Children3

Margaret Mayo, née Margaret Mary Cumming (born 10 May 1935 in London, England), is a British writer of children's literature and folktales since 1974.

Biography

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Born Margaret Mary Cumming on 10 May 1935 in London, England, the daughter of William John and Anna (Macleod) Cumming. In 1958 she married Peter Robin Mayo; they had three children.[1] She was a former teacher, who lives in Brighton.[2]

Bibliography

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Anthologies

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  • If You Should Meet a Crocodile (1974)
  • Book of Magical Horses (1976)
  • Book of Magical Birds (1977)
  • Book of Magical Cats (1978)
  • Saints, Birds and Beasts (1980)
  • The Italian Fairy Book (1981)
  • Fairy Tales from France (1983)
  • The Orchard Book of Magical Tales (1993)
  • Magical Tales from Many Lands (1993)
  • Magical Tales (1993)
  • First Fairy Tales (1994)
  • The Orchard Book of Creation Stories (1995)
  • The Orchard Book of Mythical Birds and Beasts (1996)
  • Mythical Birds and Beasts from Many Lands (1997)
  • First Bible Stories (1998)
  • Sleepytime Stories (1998)
  • The Orchard Book of the Unicorn and Other Magical Animals (2001)
  • A Pea, a Princess and a Pig: Fairy Stories (2001)
  • Wiggle Waggle Fun: Stories And Rhymes for the Very, Very Young (2002)
  • Cinderella (2002)
  • Hansel and Gretal (2002)
  • Jack and the Beanstalk (2002)
  • Snow White (2002)
  • The Orchard Book of Favourite Stories and Poems (2003)
  • The Orchard Book of Favourite Rhymes and Verse (2003)
  • Stories Rhymes and Fun for the Very Young (2017)
  • Bedtime Stories (2018)

Novels

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  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1999)

Picture books

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  • Little Mouse Twitchy-whiskers (1992)
  • How to Count Crocodiles (1994)
  • Plum Pudding (2000)
  • Dig Dig Digging (2001)
  • Emergency! (2002)
  • Toot Toot Clickety Clack (2004)
  • The Frog Prince (2005)
  • Puss in Boots (2006)
  • Choo Choo Clickerty-clack! (2006)
  • Roar! (2006)
  • Snap! (2010)
  • Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp! (2010)
  • Zoom Rocket Zoom (2011)
  • Big Digger abc (2015)

Creation Myths

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  • How Earth Was Made (1998)
  • How Men and Women Were Made (1998)
  • How the Sun Was Made and Other Stories (1998)
  • Why the Sea Is Salt and Other Stories (1998)

Magical Tales from Around the World

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  • The Fiery Phoenix (2003)
  • The Giant Sea Serpent (2003)
  • The Incredible Thunderbird (2003)
  • The Magical Mermaid (2003)
  • The Man Eating Minotaur (2003)
  • Pegasus and the Proud Prince (2003)
  • Unanana and the Enormous Elephant (2003)
  • Pegasus and the Prince (2004)

References

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  1. ^ Thomson Gale, Something about the Author, Gale Research Company
  2. ^ Margaret Mayo at Orchard Books, 14 May 2019
  3. ^ Margaret Mayo at FantasticFiction
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