Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant
Story and Pictures by Gavin Bishop
Published by Oxford University Press, New Zealand 1981
Reprinted as a NZ Classic by Random House NZ Ltd 2007
ISBN Hardback 0-1955-8074-5
Full colour picture book, Page size: 280 x
235 mm,
Level: 8 - 8 years
- Winner of the Russell Clark Medal for Illustration 1982
- Finalist for the NZ Children's Book of the Year 1982
- Named by the NZ Listener as one of the 10 Most Significant New
Zealand Children's books, 1994
The 25 year-old classic by Gavin Bishop that has been delighting children and adults alike for years has been reprinted.
Mrs McGinty is a very grumpy old woman whose life is grey, bleak
and lonely - until one day she buys a little plant which grows
and grows and grows. Mrs McGinty becomes famous and happy and makes friends
- the
plant has transformed her life.
Because MRS MCGINTY AND THE BIZARRE
PLANT is set in Christchurch and features such Christchurch icons as the
Edmonds
Baking Powder factory the book has become a classic in the minds
of thousands of South Islanders.
2006 was the 25th anniversary of MRS
MCGINTY AND THE
BIZARRE PLANT and, as part of the 2006 Christchurch Writers Festival,
there was a three week exhibition called MRS MCGINTY AND FRIENDS
at the Our City centre in the heart of Christchurch.
