Margaret Beames

Margaret Beames (18 October 1935 – 9 February 2016) was an author of children's books who lived in Feilding, New Zealand. Her first book was The Greenstone Summer, published in 1977.

Awards Beames' 2000 book Oliver in the Garden won the Picture Book category and the Children's Choice Award at the 2001 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and was included in the 2000 Storylines Notable Books List (Picture Books category), and the White Ravens list, organised by the International Youth Library. Four other books of hers were included on the Storylines Notable Books List: Storm on the 2000 Junior Fiction list; Outlanders on the 2001 Senior Fiction list; Duster on the 2003 Junior Fiction list; and Spirit of the Deep on the 2007 Young Adult Fiction list.