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by Anne Fine (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin; New Ed edition (29 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140361472
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140361476
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,481 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

About the Author
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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Flour Babies a Good Book ?, 26 Mar 2004
By Ollie Sims (Midhurst, W Sussex ,UK) - See all my reviews
It all starts with a boy called Simon Martin who is in class 4C, the bottom class at school. The whole class is given the task of looking after imaginary babies made out of bags of flour. Simon manages to convince the whole class that there is going to be a "glorious explosion" at the end of the project for the school science fair. The whole class has little enthusiasm but the thought of a flour fight at the end keeps them going for much longer. Their teacher tries to encourage them but gets fed up with the flour babies and takes them away after only eighteen days. Simon manages to save his flour baby from the bin and keeps it until he has his own glorious explosion!
The novel has a number of important morals, including don't give teachers a hard time and that sometimes things happen for no reason.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars My book review of Flour Babies, 26 Mar 2004
By JennyBuckland (Hampshire, England) - See all my reviews
A class of boys in the fourth year are assigned a project, to look after sacks of flour for four weeks.They are in the lowest set and are a rowdy and disruptive bunch of trouble-makers.None of them are enthusiastic about the project,Simon Martin, however,the class thug,takes a shine to his baby.Keeping it well in order to join in the glorious explosion he,and the rest of the class are anticipating.

The stoy,although it sounds simple,has an intricate emotional side to it.It focuses on getting to know yourself and seeing others in a different light.Strong fellings such as love and hate are experienced by Simon as he struggles to keep his flour baby from harm,all the while growing closer to it and discovering more about himself and those close to him.he begins to think about his mother,how she must have had a hard time looking after him,especially when his dad left and how he should treat her with more respect.He finally gets his head aroung his dad's sudden departure with the help of

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars We thought this story was good and we thoroughly enjoyed it!, 15 May 2002
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We thought the opening chapter was brilliant. We got into the story straight away. This story describes all we need to know about the characters and has many interesting points put across. We really like the idea of Simon Martin being mixed up with with another boy Martin Simon, although it did get confusing. Half way through the book we lost interest for a bit as it got a bit boring because all Mr Cartright seemed to do was shout at his class (4c) and check all the class's diaries of the flour babies. In the diaries it showed the true feelings of the boys and what they thought of their bags of flour.
We didnt quite get why they made Simon's dad leaving him a big issue but this all comes together in the end. We thought the ending was brilliant where he realised his dad did not mean anything to him. The people that mattered to him were the people that knew him.We thought that this project should have been aimed at girls in a class and not boys having to look after babies. We think overall that this book should have been aimed at younger people than us. Also it should have been for people with a good sense of humour. So we come to the conclusion that overall this is a reasonable book to read and should give you a vast amount of pleasure to read if you decide to!
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 6 months ago by A. Wild

1.0 out of 5 stars 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 13 months ago by Samuel P. Heatey

3.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars A reveiw on Flour Babies by Paul Souchon
In this story a class of typical school boys are all given a sack of flour and they are told to look after it as if it were a real baby for about three weeks. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2007 by Mr. Stephen Souchon

4.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on 17 Jun 2004 by jess

4.0 out of 5 stars 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

3.0 out of 5 stars Flour babies
Flour Babies is based in a school. Where an unintelligent class has to look after sacks of flour for a project. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2004 by James Barlow

3.0 out of 5 stars Flour Babies by Anne Fine
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. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2004 by Ellie

2.0 out of 5 stars 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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