Goggle-Eyes
1989 children's novel by Anne Fine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Goggle-Eyes, or My War with Goggle-Eyes in the US, is a children's novel by Anne Fine, published by Hamilton in 1989. It features a girl who thinks she hates her mother's boyfriend.[2] In the frame story, set in a Scottish day school, that girl Kitty tells her friend Helen about hating her mother's boyfriend.
Author | Anne Fine |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's novel |
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Publication date | 23 March 1989 |
Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
Pages | 140 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 0-241-12617-7 |
OCLC | 411138475 |
LC Class | PZ7.F495673 Go 1989[1] |
Fine won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author.[2] She also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice.[3] Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011.[lower-alpha 1]
Goggle-Eyes was adapted for television by the BBC in 1993.[4]
Little, Brown published a US edition under its Joy Street Books imprint in 1989, entitled My War with Goggle-Eyes.[1]