NEXT TO ALICE
A change in classroom seating arrangements challenges old habits and leads to a new friendship in this funny new school story.
At first Ben doesn't want to sit next to Alice in the classroom. She's 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 Alice's advice, he realises that she might have a point and discovers that sitting next to her isn't so bad after all.
ANNE FINE
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.
FINE ANNE
Anne Fine es una escritora británica nacida el 7 de diciembre de 1947 en Leicester, Inglaterra. Es conocida por sus libros infantiles y juveniles, aunque también ha escrito novelas para adultos. Su obra se caracteriza por el humor, la crítica social y la exploración de temas familiares y emocionales.
Entre sus libros más famosos se encuentra Madame Doubtfire 1987 , que inspiró la película Mrs. Doubtfire protagonizada por Robin Williams. También ha escrito Goggle-Eyes, Flour Babies y Bill's New Frock, todos ellos premiados y ampliamente traducidos.
Fine ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos, incluyendo la Medalla Carnegie en dos ocasiones y el Premio Guardian. Además, fue Children's Laureate en el Reino Unido entre 2001 y 2003, promoviendo la literatura infantil y juvenil.
