The Margaret Mahy Family Playground
Riverside adventure park with a storybook path, tall slide tower, flying foxes and water play.
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This guide to the Margaret Mahy Family Playground in Christchurch follows the children's author it is named for, back to the mid nineteen seventies, when she was a local librarian and solo mother heading into school classrooms to read her stories. It turns on a wig, the audiences who came to expect it, and what dressing up meant to her. Listen from the start of the long story path by the river, where her tales are woven into the play equipment.
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