Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jean Ure was born in Surrey and wrote her first novel when she was six years old. She spent her teenage years writing and had her first book published when she was sixteen.
Jean lives in a three-hundred-year-old house in the centre of Croydon with her husband and their family of rescued dogs and cats.
<p>Shrinking Violet<br />Grown-ups love Bridget Jones’ diary, but youngsters will adore Violet Alexander’s.<br />Liverpool Echo</p>
<p>Excellent for any nine-up and will almost certainly lead to an addiction to Ure.<br />Observer</p>
<p>As an example of pre-adolescent confessional writing, this story is faithfully realistic.<br />Independent</p>
<p>Becky Bananas<br />‘The writing transcends any trace of heaviness.’<br />Guardian</p>
<p>Fruit and Nutcase<br />‘Jean Ure never puts a foot wrong.’<br />Daily Telegraph</p>
<p>The Secret Life of Sally Tomato<br />‘Rhymes, sauciness, letters, irony, comedy, comic characters… a proper little turn-on for boys. A must-buy book.’<br />Books for Keeps</p>
The fifth gloriously funny and poignant book in Jean Ure’s series of ‘secret’ diary stories.
Lily and Violet are twins – physically identical but quite opposite in character. Lily is brash, up-front and in your face. Lily Loudmouth, her dad calls her. Violet is timid and shy. She lives very much in Lily’s shadow – a shrinking violet.
Finding it difficult to make friends, Violet finds the perfect solution in Katie, her new pen pal. Soon the two are writing at a fast and furious pace and become very attached to each other. That is, until Katie suggests that they meet…
• Jean Ure is a well known, respected and high profile author whose other titles, Becky Bananas, This is Your Life, Fruit and Nutcase, Skinny Melon & Me and most recently, The Secret Life of Sally Tomato, have received critical acclaim.
• Shrinking Violet is a highly quirky, fully illustrated story, with immediate appeal to children in the 9-12 age range.
• All of Jean Ure’s books in this ‘series’ deal with very real problems in children’s lives, but in a humorous, entertaining and accessible way, always leaving the reader full of hope.
Competition: Jacqueline Wilson
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jean Ure was born in Surrey and wrote her first novel when she was six years old. She spent her teenage years writing and had her first book published when she was sixteen.
Jean lives in a three-hundred-year-old house in the centre of Croydon with her husband and their family of rescued dogs and cats.