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Anne Fine


UK flag (b.1947)

Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for children of all ages, with over forty books to her credit. As well as being chosen as Children's Laureate in 2001, she is twice winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain's most coveted children's literature award, and has also won the Guardian Children's Literature Award, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award twice, and a Smarties Prize. She won the Publishing News Children's Author of the Year Award in 1990 and again in 1993.

Her books for older children include the award winning The Tulip Touch and Goggle-Eyes, which was adapted for television by the BBC. Twentieth Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Her books for younger children include Bill's New Frock and How to Write Really Badly. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages.

Anne Fine has also written for adults. Her novels The Killjoy, Taking the Devil's Advice, In Cold Domain, Telling Liddy and, most recently, All Bones and Lies, have been published to considerable critical acclaim.

Anne Fine has two grown up daughters, and lives in County Durham.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
 
Novels
   The Summer House Loon (1978)
   The Other Darker Ned (1979)
   The Stone Menagerie (1980)
   Round Behind the Ice-house (1981)
   The Granny Project (1983)
   Scaredy-Cat (1985)
   Anneli the Art Hater (1986)
   Madame Doubtfire (1987)
   Crummy Mummy and Me (1988)
   A Pack of Liars (1988)
   Bill's New Frock (1989)
   Stranger Danger? (1989)
   Goggle-Eyes (1989)
   The Country Pancake (1989)
   The Book of the Banshee (1991)
   The Worst Child I Ever Had (1991)
   Design A Pram (1991)
   The Angel of Nitshill Road (1992)
   The Chicken Gave It To Me (1992)
   The Same Old Story Every Year (1992)
   The Haunting of Pip Parker (1992)
   Flour Babies (1992)
   Step by Wicked Step (1995)
   Countdown (1995)
   How To Write Really Badly (1996)
   Jennifer's Diary (1996)
   The Tulip Touch (1996)
   Loudmouth Louis (1998)
   Charm School (1999)
   Roll Over Roly (1999)
   Bad Dreams (2000)
   Notso Hotso (2001)
   Up on Cloud Nine (2002)
   How to Cross the Road and Not Turn Into a Pizza (2002)
   The More the Merrier (2003)
   The True Story of Christmas (2003)
   Frozen Billy (2004)
   It Moved! (2006)
   On the Summer-House Steps (2006)
   The Road of Bones (2006)
   Ivan the Terrible (2007)
   Saving Miss Mirabelle (2007)
   Eating Things on Sticks (2009)
   The Devil Walks (2011)
   Trouble in Toadpool (2012)
   Blood Family (2013)
   On Planet Fruitcake (2013)
   Blue Moon Day (2014)
   Battle of Wills (2016)
   Shades of Scarlet (2021)
   Aftershocks (2022)
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Collections
   Very Different (2001)
   A Shame to Miss 1 (poems) (2002)
   A Shame to Miss 2 (poems) (2002)
   A Shame to Miss 3 (poems) (2002)
   Shining on (2006) (with others)
   Three for Tea (2006) (with Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson)
   We're Having a Party! (2013) (with others)
   War Girls (2014) (with others)
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Series contributed to
Elsewhere
   1. Here (2012) (with others)
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Picture Books show
 
Chapter Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Anne Fine recommends
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King of the Middle March (2003)
(Arthur Trilogy, book 3)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
"Astonishingly brilliant."

Anthologies containing stories by Anne Fine
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Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay
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Losing It (2010)
edited by
Keith Gray

Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (1990) : Goggle-Eyes
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (1993) : Flour Babies
Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2007) : The Road of Bones
Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2014) : Blood Family


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