Anne Fine is a much loved and acclaimed children's book author. Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Carnegie Medal and the GuardianChildren’s Fiction Prize, and she won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies,which was also the winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award. Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock, a second Whitbread Award for The Tulip Touch, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction for The Jamie and Angus Stories. Adaptations of Bill’s New Frock and Goggle-Eyes have been screened by the BBC and her adult novel Madame Doubtfire inspired the internationally successful film Mrs Doubtfire. Anne was the Children’s Laureate for 2001-2003 and was awarded an OBE for services to children's literature in 2003. Some of her other books include The Haunting of Pip Parker, How to Cross the Road and Not Turn Into a Pizza, Care of Henry and Nag Club. Anne lives in County Durham.
