Polly's Running Away Book (A Perfectly Pink Book) - Hardcover

Thomas, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747544646 ISBN 13: 9780747544647

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2000

Synopsis

Polly is not happy. Her mother is pregnant and can't stop talking about 'the new baby'. Her little sister is exceptionally annoying. Her hamster has gone missing. AND she is no longer best friends with her best friend! So Polly decides that she is going to follow Shakespeare's role and run away from home. But first she is going to plan it all in her diary. A wonderful witty and very very lively book for any newly confident reader who wants the fun of reading someone else's diary! ' a real original Polly's brilliant diary reveals her thoughts on life The stream-of-consciousness style of writing is immensely readable and moves seamlessly across a wide range of subjects with a great deal of wit and truth. Sally Gardner's wonderful illustrations perfectly fit the text and add to the huge entertainment the book offers.' Wendy Cooling, Literacy and Learning 'Polly is a dissident child with a devastating line in put-downs and a thoroughtly convincing stream-of-consciousness style of writing.' Sunday Telegraph ' a gem of grumpiness and a good, fun read.' Sainsbury's magazine 'an absolute delight.' amazon.co.uk

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Review:

Poor Polly. Her best friend is boasting about going to Disneyland, her mother is expecting another baby, her little sister's taste for Teletubbies is getting beyond a joke and basically she just hates everything about her life. Especially "brocerly". So, she decides to run away, but before she can do that she needs to save some money because 76 pence and half a packet of chicken tikka crisps aren't going to get her very far.

Irritating siblings, falling out with best friends, confusing parents (who are, of course, mean and selfish) and the desire that all of us have to run away are examined through Frances Thomas' dead-pan, tell-it-as-it-is style, all of which is superbly illustrated by Sally Gardner's scrapbook collage.

Polly's Running Away Book is an absolute delight, and tunes in to those niggly childhood dilemmas that are certainly familiar to children everywhere. But the real joy of this book (apart from the fact that it is very, very pink and girlie!) is that adults will love it too, and will probably find it quite hard to let go once as they are swept along by the nostalgia of what it means to be a small child. --Susan Harrison

Review:

'A gem of grumpiness and a good fun read' -- Sainsbury's Magazine

'An absolute delight' -- Amazon.co.uk

'Polly is a dissident child with a devastating line in put-downs' -- Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0747544646
• ISBN 13: 9780747544647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Gardner Sally