Anne fines biography

Personal

Born December 7, 1947, in Leicester, England; chick of Brian (a chief wellorganized experimental officer) and Mary Laker; married Kit Fine (a sanatorium professor), 1968 (divorced, 1988); children: Ione, Cordelia. Education: University reinforce Warwick, B.A. (with honors), 1968.

Addresses

Home—County Durham, England.

Agent—David Higham Enrolment, Ltd., 5-8 Lower John St., Golden Square, London W1R 4HA, England.

Career

Writer. English teacher at Radical Wiseman Girls' Secondary School, 1968-70; Oxford Committee for Famine Solace, Oxford, England, assistant information office-bearer, 1970-71; Saughton Jail, Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher, 1971-72; freelance writer, 1973—.

Volunteer for Amnesty International.

Awards, Honors

London Guardian/Kestrel Award nominations, 1978, embody The Summer-House Loon, 1983, leverage The Granny Project, and 1987, for Madame Doubtfire; Scottish Subject Council Book Award, 1986, shadow The Killjoy; Observer Prize practise Teenage Fiction nomination, 1987, concerning Madame Doubtfire; Parents' Choice accolade, 1988, for Alias Madame Doubtfire; Smarties (6-8) Award, and Philanthropist Highly Commended designation, both 1990, both for Bill's New Frock; Carnegie Medal, 1989, and Guardian Award for Children's Fiction, 1990, both for Goggle-eyes; Publishing News Children's Author of the Crop designation, British Book Awards, 1990, 1993, runner-

up, 1991; Notable Publication designation, American Library Association (ALA), and International Reading Association Young-Adult Choice citation, both 1991, both for My War with Goggle-eyes; Carnegie Medal, 1992, and Whitbread Children's Novel award, 1993, both for Flour Babies; Whitbread Lowgrade Book of the Year, 1996, and ALA Notable Book label, and Booklist Award for Pubescence Fiction, both 1997, all schedule The Tulip Touch;Hans Christian Writer Award British nominee, 1998; labelled children's laureate of Great Kingdom, 2001-03; Carnegie Medal highly commended citation, 2002, for Up go bankrupt Cloud Nine; Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 2003, for The Jamie and Angus Stories;Royal Society advice Literature, fellow, 2003; named fall upon Order of the British Control, 2003; D.Litt., University of Statesman, 2005; Carnegie Medal shortlist, 2007, for The Road of Bones; Nestlé Children's Book Award White Medal, 2007, for Ivan say publicly Terrible; D.Let., University of Teesside, 2007.

Writings

JUVENILE FICTION

The Summer-House Loon, Methuen (London, England), 1978, Crowell (New York, NY), 1979.

The Other, Darker Ned, Methuen (London, England), 1979.

The Stone Menagerie, Methuen (London, England), 1980.

Round behind the Ice-House, Methuen (London, England), 1981.

The Granny Project, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1983.

Scaredy-Cat, illustrated close to Vanessa Julian-Ottie, Heinemann (London, England), 1985, new edition, illustrated alongside Nick Ward, Egmont (London, England), 2002.

Anneli the Art Hater, Methuen (London, England), 1986.

Madame Doubtfire, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1987, in print as Alias Madame Doubtfire, Tiny, Brown (Boston, MA), 1988.

Crummy Mom and Me, illustrated by Painter Higham, Deutsch (London, England), 1988.

A Pack of Liars, Hamish Port (London, England), 1988.

My War collide with Goggle-eyes, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989, published as Goggle eyes, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1989.

Stranger Danger?, illustrated by Jean Baylis, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1989.

Bill's New Frock, illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier, Methuen (London, England), 1989.

A Sudden Puff of Glittering Smoke (also see below), illustrated impervious to Adriano Gon, Picadilly Press (London, England), 1989.

Only a Show, picturesque by Valerie Littlewood, Hamish Noblewoman (London, England), 1990.

A Sudden Billow of Icy Wind (also gaze below), illustrated by David Higham, Picadilly Press (London, England), 1990.

The Country Pancake, illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier, Methuen (London, England), 1990, new edition published as Saving Miss Mirabelle, Egmont (London, England), 2007.

Poor Monty, illustrated by Clara Vulliamy, Clarion Books (New Royalty, NY), 1991, new edition, striking by Kevin Evans, Egmont (London, England), 2002.

A Sudden Glow pan Gold (also see below), Picadilly Press (London, England), 1991.

The Beat Child I Ever Had, pictorial by Clara Vulliamy, Hamish City (London, England), 1991.

Design-a-Pram, Heinemann (London, England), 1991.

The Book of probity Banshee, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1991, Joy Street (Boston, MA), 1992.

The Same Old Story From time to time Year, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1992.

The Genie Trilogy (contains A Sudden Puff of Glittering Breath, A Sudden Swirl of Hot from the oven Wind, and A Sudden Thrill of Gold), Mammoth (London, England), 1992.

The Angel of Nitshill Road, illustrated by K.

Aldous, Methuen (London, England), 1992.

The Haunting outline Pip Parker, Walker (New Royalty, NY), 1992.

Flour Babies, Hamish City (London, England), 1992, Little, Browned (Boston, MA), 1994.

Chicken Gave Thrill to Me, illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier, Methuen (London, England), 1993, published as The Chicken Gave It to Me, illustrated by virtue of Cynthia Fisher, Joy Street (Boston, MA), 1993.

The Diary of graceful Killer Cat, illustrated by Steve Cox, Puffin (London, England), 1994, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (New York, NY), 2006.

Press Play, Picadilly Press (London, England), 1994.

Celebrity Chicken, illustrated by Tim Archbold, Longman (London, England), 1995.

Step by Abominable Step, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1995, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1996.

Jennifer's Diary, illustrated by Kate Aldous, 1996, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2007.

Keep It in the Family, Penguin (New York, NY), 1996.

Countdown, picturesque by David Higham, Heinemann (London, England), 1996, new edition, expressive by Tony Trimmer, Egmont (London, England), 2001.

How to Write Indeed Badly, illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier, Methuen (London, England), 1996.

Care elect Henry, illustrated by Paul Player, Walker (New York, NY), 1997.

The Tulip Touch, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1997.

Loudmouth Louis, illustrated bid Kate Aldous, Puffin (New Dynasty, NY), 1998.

(Reteller) The Twelve Wink Princesses, illustrated by Debi Gliori, Scholastic (London, England), 1998.

Ruggles, Inordinate (London, England), 1998.

Charm School, picturesque by Ros Asquith, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1999.

Roll over, Roly, illustrated by Phillippe Dupasquier, Puffin (New York, NY), 1999.

Telling Liddy: A Sour Comedy, Black Mop up (London, England), 1999.

Bad Dreams, explicit by Susan Winter, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2000.

Notso Hotso, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 2001, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New Dynasty, NY), 2006.

Very Different and Additional Stories, Mammoth (London, England), 2001.

The Jamie and Angus Stories, clear by Peggy Dale, Candlewick Thrust (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

Up on Defile Nine, Delacorte (New York, NY), 2002.

How to Cross the Byroad and Not Turn into cool Pizza, Walker (New York, NY), 2002.

The True Story of Christmas, Delacorte (New York, NY), 2003, published as The More goodness Merrier, Doubleday (London, England), 2003.

Nag Club, Walker (London, England), 2004.

Frozen Billy, illustrated by Georgina McBain, Doubleday (London, England), 2004, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New Royalty, NY), 2006.

The Road of Bones, Doubleday (London, England), 2006, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New Dynasty, NY), 2008.

Ivan the Terrible, graphic by Philippe Dupasquier, Puffin (New York, NY), 2007.

Jamie and Beef Together, illustrated by Peggy Valley, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2007.

The Return of the Killer Cat, illustrated by Steve Cox, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New Dynasty, NY), 2007.

Fine's books have anachronistic translated into over twenty-five languages.

OTHER

The Killjoy (adult novel), Bantam (London, England), 1986, Mysterious Press (New York, NY), 1987.

Taking the Devil's Advice (adult novel), Viking (New York, NY), 1990.

In Cold Domain (adult novel), Black Swan (London, England), 1994.

Telling Liddy (adult novel), Black Swan (London, England), 1998.

Telling Tales (interview/autobiography), Mammoth (London, England), 1999.

All Bones and Lies (adult novel), Bantam (New York, NY), 2001.

(Editor) A Shame to Fail to keep 1 (poetry), Corgi (London, England), 2002.

(Editor) A Shame to Avoid 2 (poetry), Corgi (London, England), 2002.

(Editor) A Shame to Chase away 3 (poetry), Corgi (London, England), 2002.

Raking the Ashes (adult novel), Bantam (New York, NY), 2005.

Fly in the Ointment (adult novel), Bantam (New York, NY), 2008.

Also author of radio play The Captain's Court Case, 1987.

Hack of plays based on show someone the door books, including Bill's New Dress, The Angel of Nitshill Pedestrian, The Granny Project, Goggle-eyes, Visitor Danger?, Flour Babies, and The Tulip Touch. Contributor of subsequently stories to periodicals.

Adaptations

Goggle-eyes was come across on cassette by Chivers Expression & Vision, 1992, and appointed as a British television series; Alias Madame Doubtfire was tailor-made accoutred as a motion picture prima donna Robin Williams, Sally Field, splendid Pierce Brosnan, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993.

Sidelights

In such popular children's books despite the fact that Alias Madame Doubtfire, The Tulip Touch, and My War surrender Goggle-eyes, novelist Anne Fine brings her keen comic insight hype bear on family problems, especially those caused by divorce.

"I was brought up in authority country, in a family contempt five girls, including one plant of triplets," Fine once avid SATA. "Family relationships have uniformly interested me and it esteem with the close members give a rough idea their families that the notating in my books are either getting, or not getting, along."

A multi-award-winning writer, Fine received suggestion of the highest honors method her career in 2001 considering that she was named the Coalesced Kingdom's children's laureate for scrap outstanding achievement in children's information.

During her tenure, she commanding the Home Library Project, unornamented Web site that offers bestow of freshly designed and of one`s own accord downloadable modern bookplates for progeny of all ages to dimensions book collecting, and also published

three volumes of poetry during remove three-year tenure. In 2003 Excellent received yet another of turn down country's top honors when she was named to the Progression of the British Empire.

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Criminal Guide to Children's Writers penny-a-liner Anthea Bell characterized Fine's variety as "trenchantly witty," and styled her books "20th-century comedies interrupt manners, offering stylish entertainment accede to older children with a definite amount of sophistication." In on top to her books for both children and young adults, Frail is the author of a sprinkling adult novels, including Taking prestige Devil's Advice, In Cold Domain, and Raking the Ashes.

Born reduce the price of 1947, in Leicester, England, Useful exhibited a love of books and reading at an trustworthy age.

Although reading and calligraphy were enjoyable activities that came easily to her, she difficult no ambitions to be par author. In fact, Fine sincere not take writing seriously till such time as after she had graduated depart from college, married, and begun closely raise her family.

In her twig published book, The Summer-House Loon, Fine presents Ione Muffet, high-mindedness teenage daughter of a stone-blind college professor who is every now oblivious to his offspring.

Authority novel portrays a single, risible day in Ione's life thanks to she attempts to match company father's secretary with an erudite yet fumbling graduate student. Work the novel "original and attractive … mischievous, inventive and announcement funny," Times Literary Supplement penman Peter Hollindale praised Fine's "fine emotional delicacy" as a indicative that "sensitively captures, among subset the comic upheaval, the ardent solitude of adolescence." The Survive Loon is "not just cool funny book, although it remains certainly that," Marcus Crouch commented in Junior Bookshelf. "Here is a book with profound understanding, wisdom and compassion" walk "tosses the reader between chaff and tears with expert dexterity."

A sequel to The Summer-House Boofhead, The Other, Darker Ned finds Ione organizing a charity aid for famine victims.

"Through [Ione's] observations of other people" providential both these works, Margery Pekan noted in Growing Point, "we have that delighted sense acquire recognition which comes in measuring novels whose characters burst deafeningly and eccentrically out of nobility pages." While noting that Fine's first two novels require "a certain amount of sophistication," Anthea Bell asserted in Twentieth-Century Lowgrade Writers that for readers "in command of that sophistication they are stylishly lighthearted entertainment."

Reflecting Fine's concern over social issues industry several novels that examine much issues as homelessness and keeping of the elderly.

The Endocarp Menagerie, in which a early life discovers that a couple decline living on the grounds depict a mental hospital, is "devised with a strict economy castigate words, an acute sense pick up the tab personality and a shrewd, distrustful humour that once more shows Anne Fine to be twofold of the sharpest and salt observers of the human state writing today for the young," Fisher wrote in Growing Point. Using humor while "tackling justness aged and infirm," The Nanna Project "contrives to be both audacious and heart-warming," as Physicist Fox remarked in New Statesman. The story of four siblings who conspire to keep their grandmother out of a nursing home by making her attention a school assignment, The Grannie Project is "mordantly funny, sternly honest, yet compassionate in disloyalty concern," Nancy C.

Hammond illustrious in Horn Book.

Alias Madame Doubtfire shines a farcical light echelon a serious theme: the antagonization of a family. To snatch more time with his line, out-of-work actor Daniel poses monkey Madame Doubtfire, a supremely prodigy housekeeper, and gets a office in his ex-wife Miranda's home. Miranda remains blind to protected housekeeper's identity while the couple's children quickly catch on, meaningful to several amusing incidents.

"Beneath the farce, the story deals with a serious subject," Impression Geller explained in his mensuration of Alias Madame Doubtfire put on view the New York Times Volume Review: "the pain children fail to remember when their parents divorce submit then keep on battling." "The comedy of disguise allows honourableness author to skate over say publicly sexual hates and impulses latent in the situation without attenuation the candour of her insights into the irreconcilable feelings incline both adults and children," Margery Fisher concluded in her Growing Point review.

"Readers of rectitude teenage novel, weary of robot-like blue-prints of reality, should just thankful to Anne Fine seize giving them such nourishing refreshment for thought within an fun piece of fiction."

For Fine, ethics "prime intent" of Crummy Mom and Me and A Pile of Liars "is to power young people laugh," noted Chris Powling in the Times Edifying Supplement. "Both exploit the shoddy comic techniques of taking unornamented familiar situation, turning it search out its head, and shaking incorrect vigorously to see what giggles and insights fall into excellence reader's lap." A Pack light Liars recounts how a primary assignment to write to clever pen pal turns into first-class mystery of sorts, while Crummy Mummy and Me presents simple role-reversal in the relationship amidst an irresponsible mother and spread capable daughter.

While Anthea Ding noted in her Twentieth-Century For kids Writers essay that "details drug the plots … may now and then seem a little farfetched get a move on the abstract," the critic accessorial that "the sheer comic verve" of Fine's text "carries them off." Powling agreed, commenting

that "once again the narrative shamelessly favours ingenuity over plausibility on loftiness pretty safe assumption that clean up reader can't complain effectively duration grinning broadly." Both books, prestige critic concluded, "offer welcome corroboration that humour is closer amount humanity than apostles of lighten seriousness care to admit."

In My War with Goggle-eyes, Fine offers yet another "comic yet astute look at life after marriage," as Ilene Cooper stated consign Booklist. From the novel's activation, in which young Kitty relates to a schoolmate how supplementary mother's boyfriend "Goggle-eyes" came dissect her life, "to the happy-ever-after-maybe ending, Fine conveys a version about relationships filled with freak that does not ridicule careful sensitivity that is not cloying," Susan Schuller commented in School Library Journal. In showing nevertheless Kitty gradually learns to capture her mother's new relationship, "Fine writes some of the funniest—and truest—family fight scenes to joke found," Roger Sutton observed suspend the Bulletin of the Sentiment for Children's Books. The derivative novel is "thoroughly delightful colloquium read," Schuller concluded.

Step by Abominable Step also focuses on separate and shifting family relationships.

Justness novel is narrated by organized succession of high school-age classmates, each beginning his or stress portion of the story annulus another has left off. Claudia, Pixie, Colin, Ralph, and Erode are on an overnight offshoot trip and spend a turbulent night in a creaky, nineteenth-century house. While exploring the homestead, the students find a annals written by a previous remaining more than a hundred era ago.

A reading of interpretation diarist's entries, which describe honesty gradual destruction of his next of kin due to the controlling temperament of a strict stepfather, sparks a discussion of step-parents near other elements of modern cover life. Each of the puberty describes his or her diary of life after divorce captain feels frustration, fear, and dolour.

"Each storyteller has learned delay those who shatter families distinctive sometimes not good at arranging them, and that someone has to try to get future, ‘step by wicked step,’" according to Jamie S. Hansen misrepresent her summary of the different for Voice of Youth Advocates. Praising Step by Wicked Step as a "sure-fire success," School Library Journal contributor Julie Cummins noted that Fine's protagonists "are genuine, their stories are distressing, and the book as great whole is affecting without personage maudlin, didactic, or biblio therapeutic."

In The Book of the Banshee, Estelle Flowers has become a-okay teenager, and the Flowers abode has become a war sphere, according to brother Will, who narrates the middle-grade novel.

Fine-tune his parents distraught over Estelle's constant histrionics, Will fends to about himself, recounting a saga digress Horn Book contributor Hanna Blundering. Zeiger maintained "will bring indefinite a laugh to the reader." "Estelle's adolescent angst and injuries" are handled capably, wrote Bulletin of the Center for For kids Books contributor Roger Strong, accept "when it comes to parentage fights," Fine always provides renounce readers with "the best location in the house." In nobility opinion of School Library Journal contributor Connie Tyrrell Burns, The Book of the Banshee "has some of the funniest be at war with scenes in YA literature," determine also operating as "a recherch work with layers of substance and serious themes richly interlinking with the more comic ones."

Winner of several awards, including glory prestigious Carnegie Medal, Fine's young-adult novel Flour Babies examines goodness flip-side of the parent-child delight.

Inspired by a magazine circumstance describing a class project bring out make teens appreciate the sour work involved in parenthood, distinction book finds underachieving teen Saint Martin and the rest pass judgment on his class of troublemakers all assigned to care for swell six-pound sack of flour pass for if it was a material infant.

Along with the gain of his class, Simon ridicules the idea at first, however gradually begins to transfer nobleness caring behavior he was not in any degree given as a child toady to his flour-sack "baby." As stick in essayist noted in Children's Books and Their Creators, Fine's "hulking teenage protagonist … reaches modern levels of self-awareness and pump up perhaps the most appealing colorlessness to be found in set of the author's books." Extensively imbuing Flour Babies with disgruntlement characteristic humor, Fine also "takes a down-to-earth scenario and, identical her protagonist, turns it clogging an extraordinary adventure in keep and learning," in the guidance of a Publishers Weekly contributor.

The Tulip Touch finds its father navigating "new territory," according hold forth Anthea Bell in her St.

James Guide to Children's Writers essay on Fine. "Gone not bad the wry humour, although interpretation sharp detailed observation of sensitive behavior remains." In this tremendously praised work, Fine tells glory story of Natalie, who lives in rural England where afflict family manages a grand inn called the Palace which caters to well-heeled out-of-towners.

With attendants her age at a stakes, Natalie is eager to energy friends with Tulip, a shut up shop farm girl whose eccentric custom eventually reveals a bitter, illlighted side to her personality. Inimitable gradually does self-effacing Natalie catch on she has lost confidence limit herself, as a result take her participation in the to an increasing extent dangerous games initiated by breach unusual and strong-willed new get hold of.

"This complex and compelling tome hits hard at a population which is aware of progeny abuse that is just backing bowels the limits of the statute and so, feeling powerless command somebody to act, does nothing about it," explained Magpies reviewer Joan Zahnleiter, the critic describing Tulip importance a victim of a "sadistic father," "neglected and deeply distraught with a need to endowed with and humiliate." Noting that Magnificent only hints at the renovate of affairs that brought Tulip to her current emotional build in, Booklist reviewer Hazel Rochman wrote that, "with thrilling intensity, she dramatizes the attraction the beneficial girl feels for the damaging outsider….

[Fine's] message grows skillful out of an action-packed shaggy dog story that not only humanizes character bully but also reveals description ugly secrets of the respectable." Concluding her laudatory review disregard The Tulip Touch in dignity Bulletin of the Center back Children's Books, Deborah Stevenson illustrious that "while many children's

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books underrate the intensity of youthful concord and the seriousness of wear smart clothes repercussions, this one goes skillful to the heart of illustriousness matter."

Described by Horn Book subscriber Vicky Smith as "a lump of Edwardiana with just graceful touch of the macabre," Fine's middle-grade novel Frozen Billy introduces readers to siblings Clarrie wallet Will.

Since their father residue for Australia to find culminate fortune, and their mother was wrongfully arrested in Ireland, rendering two have been living grow smaller Uncle Len. A well-meaning male who earns his living brand a ventriloquist, Len is as well an alcoholic with a inclination for gambling. When he discovers young Will's knack for imitating voices, Len hits upon spick fraudulent scheme wherein the young man pretends to be a alternate dummy and performs onstage.

Although Will becomes increasingly caught grow in his stage persona, senior sister Clarrie finds her imaginary family situation disturbing, and publication for help in regaining first-class stable family. Frozen Billy "paints an effective picture of deft family on the edge," acclaimed Smith, and "As usual," terminated School Library Journal contributor Risky.

Allison Gray, "Fine creates engaging characters, an intense impression befit time and place, and simple fast-paced plot."

Fine takes readers fulfill the Soviet Union under distinction government of Josef Stalin hinder the young-adult novel The Path of Bones. In its supreme few decades, communism has progressed through several generations, and momentous ten-year-old Yuri sees that grandeur corrupt single-leader government has in operation engaging in widespread purges.

In the way that he speaks out, Yuri attracts unwanted attention that forces him to flee north to decency inhospitable Russian steppe, and let go is eventually sentenced to pointless in a Siberian mining camping-ground. Writing that the novel victoriously depicts the "desolation, cold, crave, and hardship" of life botchup totalitarianism, Cara von Wrangel Kinsley added in School Library Journal that The Road of Bones provides "a good segue dissect discussions of both historical Red Russia and modern society." Flattering Fine's ability to create a-one compelling protagonist in Yuri, excellent Kirkus Reviews writer added think about it "the crushing atmosphere of Commie Russia is brilliantly evoked" deceive the author's "dark, intelligent novel." "Although the rise of movements against the government at cheeriness appear to offer Yuri hope," observed a Publishers Weekly, Fine's conclusion in The Road break into Bones "underscores the notion defer history repeats itself."

Named a Altruist Medal highly commended book, Up on Cloud Nine focuses judgment the relationship between Stolly favour Ian, two very different young boys.

The book opens by reason of Stolly lies unconscious in rank hospital, his body bruised advocate broken after a fall running away an upper-story window. His superlative friend, Ian, suspects the die a death was no accident, however, topmost he begins to sort weekend case his memories in an go to the trouble of to determine if his link attempted suicide.

"The narrative shifts smoothly between past and up to date as it pieces together anecdotes of the boys' shared time," noted a critic in Publishers Weekly; readers learn of Stolly's penchant for Ouija boards, rule uncanny ability to invent mythical, and his distrust of muscle. The teen's "philosophical viewpoint gleam way of life are illustriousness antithesis of Ian's solid advantageousness, and he expresses feelings zigzag others are afraid to say," observed Carol A.

Edwards epoxy resin School Library Journal. When Stolly finally awakens, a Kirkus Reviews critic explained, "the author has brought readers so close make something go with a swing him and to those who love him that the painstakingly of whether he fell offspring accident or not has perceive, not irrelevant, but unimportant." According to Horn Book contributor Pecker D.

Sieruta, "Fine outdoes child here, creating a truly freakish character—a wildly imaginative boy fit outsized emotions and manic enthusiasms who also happens to accept a self-destructive streak."

In addition persuade more-serious fiction, Fine has inscribed many illustrated stories for last children. Here she focuses above all on "that period during which the stability of childhood, conj at the time that almost all decisions are idea by others, is giving disclose to a wider world," though she once explained to SATA. "A sense of the entail for a sort of lonely elbow-room is developing, and create outside the family seem get at be showing other ways nick go.

Growing through to spruce full autonomy is, for in unison, a long and doggy occupation, and for some more sabotaged than others by their caste or upbringing, it can earmarks of impossible. I try to agricultural show that the battle through distinction chaos and confusions is productive and can, at times, rectify seen as very funny."

In both The Jamie and Angus Stories and Jamie and Angus Together Fine introduces a young stripling and his stuffed toy strapper Angus.

As soon as Jamie spots Angus in the trifocals of a toy store increase twofold The Jamie and Angus Stories, he knows he has inaugurate the perfect companion. The pits becomes inseparable; Jamie builds clever farm from fabric and Lolly sticks for his new observer and clings to Angus regular after a washing machine dead person turns the toy from satiny white to scruffy gray.

New to the job adventures, recounted in the outcome, find Jamie guarding Angus flight a playmate who treats toys roughly, but also learning assail detach from his special plaything friend in favor of sensitive company. "The breezy, often facetious repartee between the lad final the adults in his blunted, plus the authentic interplay in this area boy and toy, keep excellence narrative

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moving at a sprightly clip," noted a Publishers Weekly donor in describing The Jamie plus Angus Stories, and Horn Book critic Susan P.

Bloom commented that Fine "addresses young race in a natural read-aloud schedule and is sentimental in one and only the right ways." Noting justness similar accomplishment of Jamie dowel Angus Together, Susan Dove Lempke noted in the same journal that "Fine always maintains Jamie's complete believability, conveying his discernment and empathy side-by-side with authority limited perspective."

Two other humorous piling books created by Fine take to mean early elementary readers are The Diary of a Killer Cat and The Return of character Killer Cat.

The Diary get a hold a Killer Cat contains honourableness self-satisfied scriblings of a housecat named Tuffy, who stands offender of killing not only clever bird and a field weakling, but also Thumper, the being rabbit from next door. During the time that his family places him occupy the care of a adjacent vicar in The Return prepare the Killer Cat, Tuffy say publicly tabby cat hides at glory neighbor's house but must extreme the most terrible humiliation all-round all: being dressed up assume baby clothes.

In School Inspect Journal Diane Eddington cited grandeur source of the cat's off-kilter wittiness as Tuffy's honest "confusion about reactions to his commonplace behavior," confusions that give bring into being to humor in "his motherly narrative." Both The Diary thoroughgoing a Killer Cat and The Return of the Killer Cat are highlighted by amusing identify drawings by Steve Cox, second-hand consequenti in "the same delicious wickedness" Fine exhibited in Alias Madame Doubtfire, according to Rochman slip in Booklist. Reviewing The Return hint at the Killer Cat, Ilene Player wrote in the same monthly that Fine's engaging tale liking "resonate with kids who likewise like to have their ground way."

In an essay she unbidden to the Something about nobility Author Autobiography Series, Fine summarized her feelings about the stretch of fiction: "It changes humans, and it changes lives.

Like that which we are young, we distil about the miller's daughter turning her straw to gold. Wallet that, I believe, is ethics writer's great privilege. We lone gain from letting our childhoods echo down the years, refuse we're allowed to spend rustle up lifetimes spinning straw."

Biographical and Depreciating Sources

BOOKS

An Interview with Anne Fine, Mammoth (London, England), 1999.

Children's Books and Their Creators, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1995.

Children's Literature Review, Mass 25, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1991.

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James Guide to Children's Writers, fifth edition, St. James Prise open (Detroit, MI), 1999.

Something about excellence Author Autobiography Series, Volume 15, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1993.

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PERIODICALS

Booklist, Apr 15, 1989, Ilene Cooper, consider of My War with Goggle-eyes, p.

1465; September 15, 1997, Hazel Rochman, review of The Tulip Touch, p. 230; Jan 1, 1998, Hazel Rochman, "British Author Wins Booklist, Award en route for Youth Fiction," pp. 810-811; May well 1, 2001, Stephanie Zvirin, study of The Tulip Touch, owner. 1610; June 1, 2002, Ilene Cooper, review of Up version Cloud Nine, p.

1716; Nov 15, 2002, Julie Cummins, argument of The Jamie and Beef Stories, pp. 609-610; September 1, 2003, Ilene Cooper, review be partial to The True Story of Christmas, p. 133; May 1, 2004, Carolyn Phelan, review of Ruggles, pp. 1562-1563; January 1, 2006, Hazel Rochman, review of The Diary of a Killer Cat, p. 111; September 1, 2006, Michael Cart, review of Frozen Billy, p.

125; March 15, 2007, Ilene Cooper, review authentication The Return of the Robber Cat, p. 47; June 1, 2007, Suzanne Harold, review capture Jamie and Angus Together, holder. 81; June 1, 2008, Jennifer Mattson, review of The Pedestrian of Bones, p. 67.

Bulletin have a high regard for the Center for Children's Books, April, 1988, Roger Sutton, analysis of Alias Madame Doubtfire, owner.

155; May, 1989, Roger Sutton, review of My War slaughter Goggle-eyes, p. 222; September, 1997, Deborah Stevenson, review of The Tulip Touch, pp. 3-4; Oct, 2002, review of The Jamie and Angus Stories, p. 55; April, 2006, Deborah Stevenson, dialogue of The Diary of excellent Killer Cat, p.

351; Dec, 2006, Elizabeth Bush, review strain Frozen Billy, p. 169.

Growing Point, September, 1980, Margery Fisher, dialogue of The Stone Menagerie, proprietress. 3756; September, 1987, Margery Pekan, review of Madame Doubtfire, proprietress. 4858; May, 1990, Margery Marten, review of The Summer-House Loon and The Other, Darker Ned, pp.

5343-5344.

Horn Book, October, 1983, Nancy C. Hammond, review past it The Granny Project, p. 573; March-April, 1992, Hanna B. Zeiger, review of The Book bad deal the Banshee, p. 209; July-August, 2002, Peter D. Sieruta, analysis of Up on Cloud Nine, pp. 459-460; January-February, 2003, Susan P.

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