Granny Grimms Gruesome Glasses (Jets)
By (Author) Jenny Nimmo
Illustrated by David Wynn Millward
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins Children's Books
1st February 1996
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
64
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 4mm
61g
Fiona Smiley thinks that wearing glasses will make her brainy like the rest of her family. So when she sees Granny Grimm's glasses lying on the garden wall, she just can't resist trying them on, with some interesting results. Jenny Nimmo was shortlisted for the 1995 Carnegie Medal.
Jenny Nimmo has been an actor, researcher, floor-manager and script editor for childrens television. Her first book The Bronze Trumpeter was published in 1975. The Snow Spider won the Tir na NOg award and the Smarties Grand Prix. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire and now lives in Wales with her artist husband and three bi-lingual children.