Eating Things on Sticks by Anne Fine

Eating Things on Sticks by Anne Fine

Harry is in trouble. He's burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who's heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island. Harry doesn't expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to. He certainly didn't expect to discover all the beards. Or the angel on the mountain. Or the helicopters circling overhead all week. And he definitely didn't think it would be so wet . . .

Anne Fine's acerbic take on life often assumes a level of sophistication in her young readersInsights into the emotional lives of grown ups can appeal to children and the misunderstandings that surround Harry and Tristram's trip create comic situations that make the readers, for once, the knowing ones -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *
Family relationships come under close scrutiny in this book, which is ideal for the summer holidays * The Bookseller *
A lively, witty, rain-drenched tale full of big beards, from one of our best children's writers -- Daniel Hahn * Independent on Sunday *
This is a most enjoyable book -- Mary Arrigan * Irish Examiner *
This is Anne Fine at her hilarious best -- Wendy Cooling * Child Education *

Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book was published in the mid 1970s, 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

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780440869375
ISBN 10	0440869374
Title	Eating Things on Sticks
Author	Anne Fine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	2010-07-01
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.