Okay, okay. So spank my furry little bum. I held a party.

It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party
around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night?
So things ended up in a bit of a mess. (Well, more than a mess, really. A
complete disaster.) But it was not my fault so don't blame me ... About the
Author.

Anne Fine has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for
children and adults. 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; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread
Children's Book of the Year; and Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize.

Anne Fine was named Children's Laureate in 2001 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.
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