A classic children's book from best-loved Bill's New Frock author, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine. Perfect for readers aged between 7 and 9 and fans of The Midnight Gang and Pamela Butchart's Wigglesbottom Primary series. It's Ivan's first day at his new school, and Boris is told to look after him, and translate for him, because Ivan can only speak Russian. After all, St Edmund's is a civilized school. Only problem is, Ivan isn't civilized. So when Ivan starts greeting people as 'lowly shivering worms', and asking for words in English like 'crush' and 'mutilate', Boris realises that he's going to have his work cut out for him. And that's just the start of the day . . . Anne Fine's fun school stories have been delighting children for more than 20 years, winning her awards such as the Smarties Book Award and Carnegie Medal along the way.
About the Author
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children s book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children s Award, the Guardian Children s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children s Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the North-East.
One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young School Librarian
She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children s literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children s Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work Scotsman
A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions Independent
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