Out for the Count

Name: Out for the Count
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
SKU: 9781781125076
Price: 11.99 EUR
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★★★★★

4.45 (20 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Anne Fine Vicki Gausden

Illustrated by: Vicki Gausden

A funny and thought-provoking Little Gem from national treasure Anne Fine, with sensitive and charming artwork by up-and-coming illustration star Vicki Gausden. High quality cream paper and a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all.

Hugo wants a gerbil, but his dad says it's cruel to keep an animal in a cage. Hugo doesn't agree, and so Dad challenges him to spend a day cooped up in his room. The countdown has barely begun when Hugo starts to go stir-crazy. Warm, witty and wise to the impatience of childhood, this is Anne Fine on great form, encouraging young readers to develop imagination and empathy. High quality cream paper and a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all.

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Product Details

Weight: 160g
Dimensions: 126 x 168mm
Publication Date: 09 Mar 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication City/Country: GB
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 0-5
ISBN13: 9781781125076

About Anne FineVicki Gausden

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.