Book description
'I am NOT going to Charm School . . . '
But Bonny has no choice. Forced to spend a day at Charm School while
her mother is on a course, Bonny makes some surprising and hilarious
discoveries. Can Bonny cope with listening to Mrs Opalene's Helpful
Handy Hits (like 'how to bleach your elbows'!)? And what about the
other girls - the awful, self-obsessed little princesses who really
want to win the 'Glistering Tiara' and are prepared to do almost
anything to get it? After Bonny's day there, Charm School will never
be the same again . . .
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's
book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and
has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major
award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the
Whitbread Children's Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the
Smarties Prize and others. The Children's Laureate from 2001-2003,
Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy
about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She
lives in the North-East.
'One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human
condition writing today for the young' School Librarian
'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every
major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie
Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There
are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at
work' Scotsman
'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent
