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Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign.
When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.
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Anne Fine has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year; and Bill’s New Frock won a Smarties Prize. Anne Fine was named Children’s Laureate in 2001 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Flour Babies is based in a school. Where an unintelligent class has to look after sacks of flour for a project. The class is doing that project because one boy thinks there will be a glorious exsplosion at the end. But will he be right?
Simon Martin is the main character in the book. He is a member of 4C. He is the only one that really likes his flour baby. Simon lives alone with his mum. At the beginning of the book Simon does not appreciate his mum. In particular when his mum refuses to look after his flour baby while he is at football
practice. but towards the end of the book he starts to realise how hard it must have been for his mum looking after him all by herself.
Because of having to look after the flour baby , Simon begins to wonder about his own father, who, left when Simon was still a baby. Simon has a lot of questions for his mum. was it his fault that his dad left? What circumstances did hisdadleave in? Simon also becomes more mature and starts to appreciate his teachers.
I enjoy the book because of the way we look ino Simon's memories.I think everyone between the ages of 9 and 12.
Simon Martin is the main character in the book. He is a member of 4C. He is the only one that really likes his flour baby. Simon lives alone with his mum. At the beginning of the book Simon does not appreciate his mum. In particular when his mum refuses to look after his flour baby while he is at football
practice. but towards the end of the book he starts to realise how hard it must have been for his mum looking after him all by herself.
Because of having to look after the flour baby , Simon begins to wonder about his own father, who, left when Simon was still a baby. Simon has a lot of questions for his mum. was it his fault that his dad left? What circumstances did hisdadleave in? Simon also becomes more mature and starts to appreciate his teachers.
I enjoy the book because of the way we look ino Simon's memories.I think everyone between the ages of 9 and 12.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Flour Babies can easily be read as a book about a class of boys who have to look after little bags of flour for 3 weeks as if they were babies. The story goes much deeper than that. This book deals with issues that these adolescents would be preparing to face in later life as well as being a cathartic process of self discovery for the main character. It explores the responsibilities of parenthood both in their presence and absence. Overall I found this book wonderful and as a trainee teacher, I would be happy to use this book in the classroom.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Flour babies is a meaningful novel about a class of 14 year olds receiving a sack of flour each which they must look after for 4 weeks. Simon Martin's father left him when he was a baby and this flour baby helps him understand about parenting and why his father left.
Simon is a teenage slob,who doesn't pay any attention to school work what so ever until he chooses home economics in a science fair and receives a flour baby.
Simon manages to persuade hisf riends into thinking that at the end of the project they can kick they're flour babies to bits,this was because he over heard a conversation/arguement between Dr Feltham and his form tutor.
To start with he hates her but then he starts to explore his unknown past and his missing father.Simon grows to care for this flour baby although his friends think he's lost all his sanity.
He first realises that his school teachers must haveto put up with alot , looking after him and his class mates , so in a regular detention with Miss Arnott he, foronce, settles down to work instead of getting up to his usual strange antics. But this only lasts that one detention because he doesn't want to loose his reputation.
Simon next starts to think about his Dad and why he left. He satrtsto ask him self a lot of questions like
Simon is a teenage slob,who doesn't pay any attention to school work what so ever until he chooses home economics in a science fair and receives a flour baby.
Simon manages to persuade hisf riends into thinking that at the end of the project they can kick they're flour babies to bits,this was because he over heard a conversation/arguement between Dr Feltham and his form tutor.
To start with he hates her but then he starts to explore his unknown past and his missing father.Simon grows to care for this flour baby although his friends think he's lost all his sanity.
He first realises that his school teachers must haveto put up with alot , looking after him and his class mates , so in a regular detention with Miss Arnott he, foronce, settles down to work instead of getting up to his usual strange antics. But this only lasts that one detention because he doesn't want to loose his reputation.
Simon next starts to think about his Dad and why he left. He satrtsto ask him self a lot of questions like
Most Recent Customer Reviews
flour babies
The book was in the condition that I expected for the very cheap price we paid for it and it came through the post very quickly (within a couple of days).
Published on 28 July 2009 by Mrs. Melanie Jane Stephen
A book that every child should read...
I remember borrowing this from the library time and time again when I was younger - I loved this story. Anne Fine is a great childrens author. Read more
Published on 10 July 2009 by Blatant Biblioholic
Great book!
I read "flour babies" a few years ago and loved it. It's a really sweet book that adults will enjoy whizzing through in a few spare hours.
Published on 2 Jan 2009 by A. Wild
My Book Review On Flour Babies
Personally I think Flour Babies was proably one of the worst books by Anne Fine. I don't really understand what the main point of the book actually is. Read more
Published on 28 May 2008 by Samuel P. Heatey
Flour Babies
Personally I think Flour Babies was a rather dull and dreary read. I couldn't wait to read on, to finish the book. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2007 by Mrs. L. Rodgers
My Flour Babies review
Reading Flour Babies was really fun, espacialy where we got to make our own ones. We all got a chance to read at lest a page. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2004
Jessica's review on The Flour Babies
My view on the Flour Babies:
The Flour Babies is a very touching book it discusses young paranting and the different ways to cope. Read more
The Flour Babies is a very touching book it discusses young paranting and the different ways to cope. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2004 by jess
The Flour Babies
This book focuses on Simon Martin and the rest of his class, who all get given bags of flour which they have to treat like babies for four weeks. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2004 by E Maginnis
My book review of Flour Babies
A class of boys in the fourth year are assigned a project, to look after sacks of flour for four weeks. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2004 by JennyBuckland
melissa's and charlotte's review
Simon Martin is a naughty 14 year old boy in the bottom set at school. In class he has to study 'flour babies' but the class is disgusted. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2004 by "melissalynes"
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