Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1992. 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.Funny and poignant, Flour Babies is a brilliant depiction of secondary school life.
This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book features in the following series: Collins, Collins Drama, Galaxy Children's Large Print, Laurel-Leaf Books, New Century Readers, New Longman Literature, New Longman Literature 11-14, Plays Plus, Puffin .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.
There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Anne Fine is a bestselling author, former Children's Laureate and prize-winner with great profile across the trade, libraries and educational markets.
This book contains the following story:
Flour Babies
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.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Whitbread Book Award
This book was recognised by the Whitbread Book Award.
Whitbread Book Award - Novel
This book was recognised in the Novel category by the Whitbread Book Award.
Carnegie Medal
This book was recognised by the Carnegie Award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.