Annie
By (Author) Thomas Meehan
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
22nd October 2014
3rd July 2014
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
226g
The story of Annie - everyone's favourite orphan - with an introduction by Miranda Hart. It's 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has believed that her mother and father would come back to her New York City orphanage to get her. But mean Miss Hannigan the headmistress is making Annie's life a misery. So she runs away to find her parents - and along the way she rescues a friendly dog, meets millionaire Oliver Warbucks, and has a many scary and exciting adventures. Will kind-hearted Annie find a way to escape her hard-knock life
Thomas Meehan was born in New York in 1929. He worked as a journalist for The New Yorker magazine and wrote comedy sketches for the satirical TV show, 'That Was the Week That Was'. He received a Tony Award for Annie in 1977, for The Producers in 2001 and in 2003 for the musical Hairspray. He currently lives in New York city and in Nantucket, Massachusetts.