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Gnomes, Gnomes, Gnomes

Paperback

Light-hearted comedy from an award-winning author. Sam's a bit obsessed with making gnomes – the garden shed is full of them! When Mum says they have to go, Sam and his sister decide to throw them a party – one the entire family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. Dozens and dozens and dozens of gnomes, living huddled together out in the shed. But when Sam's mum suddenly needs that space, she says the gnomes will have to go. And so Sam plans a send-off for his little clay friends – a send-off that turns into a night the family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

RRP: £7.99

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

ISBN

978-1-78112-204-4

Interest age

9+

Reading age

7

Publication Date

01-07-2013

Format

Paperback

Pages

64 pages

Dimensions

130x198mm

Product Description

Light-hearted comedy from an award-winning author. Sam's a bit obsessed with making gnomes – the garden shed is full of them! When Mum says they have to go, Sam and his sister decide to throw them a party – one the entire family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. Dozens and dozens and dozens of gnomes, living huddled together out in the shed. But when Sam's mum suddenly needs that space, she says the gnomes will have to go. And so Sam plans a send-off for his little clay friends – a send-off that turns into a night the family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

Author

Anne Fine, Illustrated by Vicki Gausden

An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

ISBN

978-1-78112-204-4

Reading age

7

Interest age

9+

Publication Date

01-07-2013

Format

Paperback

Pages

64 pages

Dimensions

130x198mm

Product Description

Light-hearted comedy from an award-winning author. Sam's a bit obsessed with making gnomes – the garden shed is full of them! When Mum says they have to go, Sam and his sister decide to throw them a party – one the entire family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. Dozens and dozens and dozens of gnomes, living huddled together out in the shed. But when Sam's mum suddenly needs that space, she says the gnomes will have to go. And so Sam plans a send-off for his little clay friends – a send-off that turns into a night the family will never forget! Particularly suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

Author

Anne Fine, Illustrated by Vicki Gausden

An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children’s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970’s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children’s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill’s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.