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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
While Clarrie and Will's father is in Australia trying to earn enough to send for the family and their mother is in prison in Ireland, wrongly accused of stealing a basket of food, they are in the care of their uncle Len, who is drinking and gambling away the money he earns as a ventriloquist. Will improves Uncle Len's act by becoming the brother of dummy Frozen Billy, and they are a huge hit. But Clarrie has always feared the dummy and sees Will becoming less like a child and as frozen as the wooden puppet. With a great deal of patience, ingenuity and some timely help, plucky Clarrie saves the day, all wrongs are righted and there is a satisfying ending to the drama. Fine weaves an inventive tale set in Edwardian London with characters who fit the setting perfectly and with just enough darkness to keep the proceedings from too much sweetness and treacle. McBain's black-and-white line drawings are just right. Jolly good. (Fiction. 8-12) (Kirkus Reviews)
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