Roll Over Roly
By (Author) Anne Fine
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
2nd August 1999
24th June 1999
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
64
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 5mm
55g
Rupert's puppy, Roly, is so round and warm and soft and lovely that Rupert hasn't the heart to be stern with him. It looks as if Roly will never learn to behave. But then he meets a parrot named Gordon...
Anne Fine is one of our most distinguished writers for children. She has written over fifty highly acclaimed books and has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and both the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal twice over. Anne was appointed the Children's Laureate from 2001-3, and her work has been translated into over forty languages. In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. Anne lives in County Durham. Anne Fine was born and educated in the Midlands, and now lives in County Durham. She has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults. Her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize, and Madame Doubtfire has become a major feature film starring Robin Williams. Anne was the Children's Laureate 2001 - 2003 and won an OBE in 2003.