Margaret Beames (18 October 1935 – 9 February 2016) was an author of children's books who lived in Feilding, New Zealand.
[3] Two of her books were finalists in the Junior Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, Archway Arrow in 1997, and The Shearwater Bell in 1998.
[3] She was the University of Otago College of Education Writer in Residence in 2005.
[3] Beames was born in Oxford, England, and lived in Kenya for two years.
[1][2] In 1974, she moved to New Zealand and worked as a teacher for more than 30 years.