Next to Alice
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At first Ben doesnβt want to sit next to Alice in the classroom. Sheβs scary and tells him off for his squiggly drawing and poor handwriting. She even points out his bad table manners. But when Ben starts to take Aliceβs advice, he realises that she might have a point and discovers that sitting next to her isnβt so bad after all.
Particularly suitable for readers aged 7+ with a reading age of 7.
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An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Childrenβs Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970βs 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 Childrenβs Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit childrenβs film Mrs Doubtfire, and Billβs New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.
