Books By Anne Fine, Penny Dale - Author

A past Children's Laureate, and a multi award-winning author, Anne was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2003., When I was young, it never occurred to me that I might be a writer. I think I must have thought that books were born on the library shelves, recalls preeminent writer Anne Fine. So how did she end up as one of the best-loved and best-known children's authors of our time? Amazingly, Anne Fine claims to owe her beginning to bad weather. "One January there was such a blizzard I couldn't get to the library and so sat down and began a book of my own." This kind of gentle humor has become a trademark of Anne Fine's work. "I still adore funny books," she says. "And since I write for the reader inside myself, I always end up with the kind of book I would have loved to read (if only someone else had bothered to write for me)." It seems that many other readers have the same taste in literature as Anne Fine. One of her most recent titles, THE JAMIE AND ANGUS STORIES, wryly recounts the adventures of