Information for teachers

School visits and the DVD

To help those schools who are unable to have a visit in person, Anne has teamed up with ChildrensAuthors.tv to produce a DVD that is in effect a cyber visit, but with the additional benefit that it can be taken off the shelf and enjoyed over and over again. The producers say: "Now, for a fraction of the cost of a visit, every school in the world can intimately enjoy the company of some of their favourite authors and illustrators, with the help of schoolchildren who spend the day with them and discover lots of things we'd all like to know, but may never get the chance to ask."

Here's more information about the DVD, including a trailer.

Books

Many of Anne Fine's books have been produced in special editions and special packs for schools, and some have been turned into plays suitable for school production. Step by Wicked Step was broadcast by BBC Schools Radio in January/February 2003 and Anne Fine has written for teachers about the radio adaptation.

You may also be interested to read Anne’s answers to questions about Bill’s New Frock, and her comments for adults about why she wrote The More The Merrier, a book for 8-12 year old children that was published in September 2003.

Anne writes for readers of all ages, and you can follow these links to skip directly to the part of this page that lists books for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, and Key Stage 3 and older children. See your educational bookseller for more details, or visit their website. Alternatively many of the books are available from Amazon: where this is the case clicking on the ISBN will take you to their website where you can buy the book.

Key Stage 1

Heineman Library have brought out Care of Henry in two formats: as a 'big book' (ISBN 978-0-7445-6927-8, £12.99) and a 'guided reader pack' of six books (ISBN 978-0-431-08993-5, £21.00).

Key Stage 2

Heineman Library have a set of 'Anne Fine Stories' (ISBN 978-0-431-09070-2, £27.93) which has one each of Anneli the Art Hater, The Chicken Gave it to Me, The Country Pancake, A Sudden Puff of Glittering Smoke, A Sudden Swirl of Icy Wind, A Sudden Glow of Gold and Press "Play".

Heineman Library also have Design a Pram (ISBN 978-0-431-06188-7, £5.99) in their New Yellow Bananas series and, in a set of six, The Haunting of Pip Parker (ISBN 978-0-431-02277-2, £23.94).

Anne has turned The Chicken Gave it to Me into the play Celebrity Chicken which is published by Longman, available in single copies (ISBN 978-0-582-12248-2, £4.00) and in packs of six (ISBN 978-0-582-12972-6, £24.00).

Ginn have playscripts of The Angel of Nitshill Road (ISBN 978-0-602-28450-3, £28.25) and The Country Pancake (ISBN 978-0-602-28452-7, £28.25). Both these prices are for sets of six.

Key Stage 3 and older

Longman Education have published several of Anne's books in their New Longman Literature series.

The titles they have published are:

Bill's New Frock - Guided reader pack (set of six) (ISBN 978-0-431-08988-1, £23.94)
Bill's New Frock - Playscript (ISBN 978-0-582-09556-4, £4.99)
One morning Bill wakes up to find he has somehow, in the night, turned into a girl.

Flour Babies - Hardback (ISBN 978-0-582-43452-3, £6.75)
This funny, realistic novel is the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.

Goggle-Eyes (ISBN 978-0-582-29260-4, £6.75)
Kitty Killin will try anything to persuade her mum that going out with boring Gerald Faulkner is a big mistake.

Madame Doubtfire (ISBN 978-0-582-29261-1, £6.75)
There's something strange about Miranda Hillard's new cleaner-come-childminder, but Miranda can't quite work out what it is...

The Tulip Touch (ISBN 978-0-582-81782-1, £6.75)
Tulip is a girl who rouses extreme reactions. Natalie's friendship with her takes the two of them on a roller coaster which can only end in tragedy. This edition has an author's introduction and notes by Ruth Coleman.

Note: Longman's editions of A Pack of Liars and The Book of the Banshee have recently gone out-of-print.

Heinemann Secondary currently have The Granny Project (ISBN 978-0-435-12304-8, £6.50) and Up on Cloud Nine ISBN 978-0-435-12876-0, £6.50) in their New Windmills Fiction "durable hardback" range.

Collins Education currently have a number of Anne's stories in their Plays Plus series:

The Book of the Banshee (ISBN 978-0-00-330310-0, £7.25)
"The book contains a stimulating playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities."

Flour Babies (ISBN 978-0-00-330312-4, £7.25)
"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. The book contains a lively playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities."

Step by Wicked Step (ISBN 978-0-00-717896-4, £7.25)
"Anne Fine's sensitive and poignant play for young people is accompanied by stimulating background materials and activities designed to answer English Framework objectives."

The Granny Project (ISBN 978-0-00-330234-9, £7.25)
"... contains a sensitive and funy playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities."

The Tulip Touch (ISBN 978-0-00-713086-3, £7.25)
"A stunning adaptation for schools ... of her much-loved children's novel."