An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.

"This book had me in stitches, I laughed so much … there is a real sense of family and lost memories in this book which want to be re-lived I found this very heart-warming … perfect for all young readers and will have them smiling inside and out" – Emma Suffield"Packs an awful lot of fun into a very short read" – Mrs Sydney's Famous World's Smallest Library"A rather fun and endearing story … accompanied by some frankly brilliant artwork by Gareth Conway … he's managed to make even the most ordinary moments look dynamic and full of fun" – Trans-scribe, Blog

An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.

"This book had me in stitches, I laughed so much … there is a real sense of family and lost memories in this book which want to be re-lived I found this very heart-warming … perfect for all young readers and will have them smiling inside and out" – Emma Suffield"Packs an awful lot of fun into a very short read" – Mrs Sydney's Famous World's Smallest Library"A rather fun and endearing story … accompanied by some frankly brilliant artwork by Gareth Conway … he's managed to make even the most ordinary moments look dynamic and full of fun" – Trans-scribe, Blog

An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.

"This book had me in stitches, I laughed so much … there is a real sense of family and lost memories in this book which want to be re-lived I found this very heart-warming … perfect for all young readers and will have them smiling inside and out" – Emma Suffield"Packs an awful lot of fun into a very short read" – Mrs Sydney's Famous World's Smallest Library"A rather fun and endearing story … accompanied by some frankly brilliant artwork by Gareth Conway … he's managed to make even the most ordinary moments look dynamic and full of fun" – Trans-scribe, Blog