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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:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Flour babies,
This review is from: Flour Babies (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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to read, funny and emotional.,
This review is from: Flour Babies (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:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Flour Babies by Anne Fine,
By Ellie (England,Hampshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Flour Babies (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
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