Madame Doubtfire
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The Jamie and Angus Stories
 List Price: Price: $5.99 Description"Sentimental in only the right ways. . . .A perfectly charming collection." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)The moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the toy shop, with his silky coat and forlorn gaze, he knows they belong together. On Christmas morning, the two are united at last, and the coveted Highland bull becomes Jamie’s constant companion — through an ill-fated run-in with the washing machine, Uncle Edward’s jump-training sessions, a stay at the hospital, and three more amusing adventures from Britain’s Children’s Laureate. Customer ReviewsJamei and AngusMy daughter loves Jamie and Angus. She likes the drawings in the book as well as the cute stories. Her favorite is the one where Jamie and Angus have to go to the hospital for Jamie's stomach ache. While he is there he takes a little girl and her stuffed animal's last three chocolates that she was saving for when she got to go home. My daughter learned that it was wrong to steal from that story and every time I read it to her she tells me that Jamie and Angus are being bad. They are a tad long for bed time stories but I think the extra time is well worth a quality story. A wonderful read-aloud We read this aloud to our 4-year old son and it was a smashing hit. Jamie is a sweet, realistic little boy and the love he has for his little stuffed animal (Angus) is right on. A sweet story My children and I love this book.I read it outloud to my 5 and 7 year olds.Just a nice simple story of a boy and his favorite stuffed toy
Goggle-Eyes
DescriptionCustomer ReviewsGoggle EyesThe book opens with a dramatic scene. A girl charges into a classroom tears streaming down her face. She is uncharacteristically rude to her teacher and then emotionally runs out of her classroom. The main protagonist Kitty is sent after her and not knowing why she is chosen she reluctant follows the other girl to the locker room. Its from there that the scene is set for Kitty to tell her story to her upset classmate. It transpires that the other girl Helly, has a divorced mother with a new man in her life that she hates. Kitty then realises why she was chosen and then proceeds to tell her story of " Goggle Eyes". The novel is a funny subtle exploration of the pain of adjusting to divorce and then having the new balance of mother and children upset with a new and possibly permanent man in the family. It is about the gradual maturity of the main character learning to live with and reluctantly like a man who is the exact opposite of her, temperamentally, politically and in many other ways and realising that such a situation can work. It is a charming, sometimes hilarious story with well developed characters and some political content as well. Can be enjoyed by adults as well as teenagers.
Selections: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Virginia Museums's Handbook Series)
 List Price: Price: $22.00 DescriptionA portable Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, this handbook invites readers to explore highlights of the Museum's collections. Includes works from the following areas: Ancient American, Asian, African, Byzantine and Western Medieval Sculpture and Decorative Arts, European, American, 19th and 20th Century Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and European and American Twentieth Century Art.Softcover, 136 pages, 120 color illustrations
Tulip Touch
DescriptionCustomer Reviewskid's review!!The Tulip Touch is an emotional book that teaches about friendship and what happens to kids who are bullied.This book teaches kids to speak for themselves and to not follow other who are doing bad things and encourages kids to make decisions independently. The book is well written. Anne Fine describes the scenes clearly and makes you feel like you are in the book with the character. the ending of the novel helps the reader unserstand why the horrible things that happened through this book occurred. We would recommend this book to kids and adults because adults can see what happens in a real kid's life and kids will learn to speak for themselves and to learn the dangers of bullying. A sensitive exploration of "how children go bad" This quiet novel is, I believe, one of Anne Fine's best. It's a balanced and sensitive exploration of friendship and families: what it means to destroy and what it is to be reborn. Natalie, the protagonist of this novel, is a quiet and introverted child - a member of a busy hotel-manager's family, somewhat neglected. At the age of eight she meets Tulip, a bright, original outsider. From the first, Tulip enchants Natalie with her ideas for games and her spark of mischief. Natalie's parents encourage the friendship, knowing something about Tulip's dysfunctional family and miserable home life. Before long, Tulip has closed Natalie off from her schoolmates and family - Natalie, though, is happy in this unusual friendship. Yet as time passes, Tulip's streaks of malice and cruelty begin to show as her home life deteriorates. Tulip and Natalie are the main characters in this drama: in the background we see parents, classmates, police officers and other figures, but these are generally sketches. That is my main quibble with this book: none of the characters except our central duo seem truly developed, or are sufficient to hold readers' interest. Perhaps this is intentional, but it annoyed me personally. In an interesting introduction to my edition, Anne Fine writes that Tulip and Natalie seemed to "spring to life" almost as soon as she began to write the novel. She notes that they show the qualities of a good author. Tulip is a compulsive and brilliant liar (and, Fine says, "what is a novel but a tissue of lies telling the truth?"). Also, Natalie "has the strength to look on something painful and not turn away". One of a writer's greatest and most needed qualities. The Tulip Touch is an unusual tale, raising many moral questions - does true evil exist? Are we born with our personalities or are they shaped by our upbringing? What is evil? Why, as Natalie demands at the end of the novel, does a person's state have to become desperate before he or she is given help? Cleverly, Anne Fine (an educated, opinionated atheist who disbelieves in the concept of evil) makes clear her views while leaving the reader to decide his or her own answers to these difficult questions. Four stars for the plot and characters, and an additional star for the fantastic descriptions found throughout the book. YUCK OMG THIS BOOK TOTALY SUCHS ITS SOO UGLY AND GROUSE .. EHH I HATE THIS THIS IS NOT A NICE BOOOK great i have only read this book twice but allready it is one of my faverites. it is a book thta really draws you into the plot. it is the kind of book that stays in you mind for along time. Priceless pyromaniac Peril I became deeply entranced in this book. The twisted storyline and intriguing characters kept me hooked throughout the book. I have read a lot of Anne Fine's books and this is definitely one of her best. You can definitely relate to the characters and how they think, when she describes how Natalie feels during the fire in the shed you can see images and imagine you are actually there. It's really very powerful. I've only read it once, but I would read it many more times.
Anneli the Art Hater
 List Price: $7.56 DescriptionAnneli hates art. She doesn't like looking at it or thinking about it, and when the paints come out in the art class at school, she just can't stand it. But behind a hidden door in her house, Anneli finds a painting that draws her into an extraordinary story.Fine Anne News
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