Margaret Balderson is an Australian novelist and writer for children who was born in Concord, New South Wales in 1935.[1] She won the 1969 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers award for her debut novel When Jays Fly to Barbmo.[2]

Balderson attended Fort Street High School before commencing library work. She undertook a working holiday to Europe in the 1960s and travelled to and worked in Norway where she gathered material for her debut novel.[2]

Following her return to Australia she worked as resident house-mistress and librarian at Frensham School, Mittagong, NSW.[1]

Novels

• When Jays Fly to Barbmo, illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus (1968)
• A Dog Called George (1975)
• Blue and Gold Day, illustrated by Roger Haldane (1979)
• Sea Bird with Elizabeth Smith (2002)
• Junkyard Dogs, illustrated by Janine Dawson (2002)

Awards

• 1969 – winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, When Jays Fly to Barbmo
• 1969 – runner-up Carnegie Medal, When Jays Fly to Barbmo
• 1976 – highly commended Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, A Dog Called George

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