Anne Fine’s story of how one family looks after their aging grandmother. The book contains a sensitive and funy playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities.
When Natasha and Henry decide to put Granny into a home, their four children Nicholas, Tanya, Ivan and Sophie start up a major protest. Nicholas and Tanya begin a series of tantrums and nightmares about Granny going away, while Evan and Sophie write the devastating ‘Granny Project’: a full account of their grandmother’s life for a social science project at school. Their parents finally give in and announce that Granny can stay – on the condition that all the nursing and caring must be done by the children themselves!

The Granny Project (Collins Drama)

Children's Books

Fine, Anne.

Arts, Music & Photography

Collins Educational

Adapted by the author from her popular novel, this is the story of a teenage rebellion and its effects on a family. It is part of the "Plays Plus" series. "Plays Plus" is a series of playscripts which deal with important contemporary issues. Much more than a script, each one provides resource material which gives a framework for exploring issues in the classroom. Stimulus material includes poems, photographs, fact lists and extracts which are combined with suggestions for written work, discussion, role plays and drama workshops.

Book of the Banshee

Teen & Young Adult

Anne Fine’s humorous and moving story of one boy’s attempt to come to terms with his own absent father by doing a school project on fathering. At the annual science fair, Mr Cartwright’s class don’t get to work on the Soap Factory, or the Maggot Farm, instead they get the flour babies – sweet little six pound bags of flour that must be cared for. The book contains a lively playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities. Flour Babies is suitable for class work, drama lessons and school productions. The resource material includes advice on staging the play, ideas for improvisation arising from the script, poems and extracts from fictional and non-fictional writing. The issues of parenthood, families, growing up and peer pressure are explored through drama, discussion and written work.

Flour Babies (Collins Drama)

HarperCollins, UK

A stunning adaptation for schools by the Children’s Laureate Anne Fine, of her much-loved children’s novel. Why is Tulip always in trouble? And why does Natalie find Tulip’s dangerous games so fascinating. A powerful story about troubled teenagers and their relationship to the adult world. The Tulip Touch is suitable for class work, drama lessons and school productions. The resource material includes advice on staging the play, ideas for improvisation arising from the script, poems and extracts from fictional and non-fictional writing. The issues of parenthood, families, growing up and peer pressure are explored through drama, discussion and written work.

The Tulip Touch (Collins Drama)

Education & Teaching

O'Neill, Rachel

O'Neill, Cecily

Schools & Teaching

Adapted from another of her successful children's novels, Anne Fine's sensitive and poignant play for young people is accompanied by stimulating background materials and activities. Four young teenagers are surprised to find themselves grouped together on a school trip to a creepy old historical house. Here they uncover a secret room that has lain undiscovered and unopened for over 100 years - what they find inside reveals not only a story from the past but also leads to a chain of disovery about themselves.

Step by Wicked Step (Collins Drama)

Madame Doubtfire

Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look mind the children after work - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book inspired the highly successful film Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams.

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

Crummy Mummy and Me

'I don't think my mum's fit to be a parent, really I don't.' How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights? But Minna's whole family (including her mum's punk boyfriend, Crusher Maggot) is a bit unusual. Being the only sensible one is not easy for Minna...

Crummy Mummy And Me

Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller, but also the World's Greatest Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn into new and unwanted stepfathers...

Goggle Eyes

The Book of the Banshee

'It was the worst sight that I have ever seen in all my years of babysitting.' Why does Mrs Mackle think Susan Solly is the worst child ever? Just what did Susan do that was so terrible? And what did it have to do with snails?

Confident Readers Worst Child I Ever Had (Young Puffin Read Alone)

Puffin UK

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