- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 2 edition (17 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 058281782X
- ISBN-13: 978-0582817821
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,212,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The following reviews are based on the original book by Anne Fine.
•‘The Tulip Touch grapples with the topical question of what turns children into criminals. It engrossingly chronicles a childhood friendship with a disadvantaged girl who goes to the bad. This novel will make children aged between 11 and 14 think about the dangers of peer pressure and the collective responsibility of society for unhappy children. As always, Fine teaches her lessons by making her readers feel.’ Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times.
•’It's a brilliant book.’ Ian Hislop
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.Book Description
Is anyone born evil? A powerful story about troubled teenagers.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A well written book about child abuse,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Tulip Touch (Paperback)
This is a very sad and difficult book to read because it deals with an unpleasant situation. It is about a little girl called Tulip who suffers mental and physical cruelty at home which no-one can stop happening. Her continued bad behaviour is a cry for help which is not answered and over several years she became mentally ill.The story is written through the eyes of her best friend Natalie.It starts with Natalie's family moving in to a new area and running a hotel. Natalie is lonely and sees Tulip with a kitten in a field. Tulip is hesitant to speak but decides to be friends with Natalie. No-one questioned why, except police officer Stallworthy who later wondered what Tulip saw in Natalie. Everyone else shuns Tulip who rarely attended school an was always difficult and unpleasant. Natalie's mum states 'She's bright enough to see tha if people like her go around exactly what they want, everyone's miserable.' The whole book becomes more uncomfortable and sinister. Natalie is banned from visiting Tulip's house. she visits once but is very frightened by what she sees and the odd behaviour of Tulip's parents especially her father who is a vindictive bully. Natalie's father summed her up when he said "to really know right from wrong you need a certain emotional sympathy, and you learn that from being treated properly yourself." "If you've been brought up as if your feelings don't matter, you probably assume other people's don't matter much either." Tulip spends as much time as possible with Natalie to escape her home, but the games they play are always weird such as Havoc, Road of Bones or Stinking Mackerel. Natalie's little brother Julius was often the but of these games and he got very scared and frightened by them. Gradually the games became wilder and more frightening. First Tulip favoured dustbin fires but slowly she switched to annoying neighbours, menacing bereaved parents, fellow pupils, terrorizing pets and leaving dead animals in cages. No-one ever seemed to stop her or help her situation, so the darker side inside Tulip surfaced. As Natalie said "In her(Tulip's) eyes it was the world that was wrong. If the world had only been right, if things had only fallen out the way they should then she would never have to lie, or steal or be spiteful." Natalie realises that Tulip is out of control and becomes so frightened she backs away and concentrates on her schoolwork. This disturbs Tulip who cannot handle the rejection and ends up burning down the hotel in an act of revenge. The book leaves a sense of sadness and guilt that no-one had really tried to reach out and help Tulip.Natalie sums it up "Each horrible thing that happens makes a difference and there have been too many of those in Tulip's life." I did not enjoy this book because it made feel uncomfortable. It is well written because youm never know what is happening in Tulip's life which adds to the suspense. Don't read this book before bed time because you will never sleep!!!!!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A MUST READ by katie babich 12,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Tulip Touch (Paperback)
Its brilliant and mesmerizing. When you start reading the book you'll just get sucked in and you wont be able to put it down. I'm glad that this book is on the reading list at our school because kids between 12-15 should read it. I don't think that you could find a child like tulip in the world because a lot of perants care too much about thier children these days. This book is about a girl, Natalie, who becomes friends with tulip because she feel sorry for her, as they become beter friends tulip starts playing more dangerous and dareing games....christmas.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Utterly compelling and truthful book,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Tulip Touch (Paperback)
This book is quite simply the best book I have ever read aimed at a child audience on the difficult subject of abuse and parental derelication of responsibility. It is a chilling read - never graphic, but all the more sinister for the way it implies the despair - , and bravely and rightly asks children to put themselves in the main character's position constantly. What would I do about Tulip? Could I make a difference? Should I even try? And at the centre of the book is Tulip herself, surely one of the most fascinating characters to appear in any children's novel. She has so many aspects - a richly imagined, complex, irrational, sometimes appealing and sometimes frightening character. Fine manages to make us believe in her and sympathise so much with her plight. Fantastic.
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