Miranda Hilliard and her husband Daniel are divorced, and he doesn't see their children very often. One day Madame Doubtfire comes to work for Miranda to help look after the children, but Madame Doubtfire seems strange - more like a man than a woman!
This funny story is also a hugely popular film starring Robin Williams as Madame Doubtfire. More of Anne Fine's books, Flour Babies and Goggle-Eyes are also available as Penguin Readers.
Anne Fine was the second Children's Laureate in Britain between 2001 and 2003. She is a two time winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain's most coveted children's literature award, and has also won the Guardian Children's Literature Award, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award twice, and a Smarties Prize. She also won the Publishing News Children's Author of the Year Award in 1990 and again in 1993. In 2010 she won the inaugural Good Writing Award. Her books for older children include the award winning The Tulip Touch, Goggle-Eyes, which was adapted for television by the BBC and The Devil Walks. Twentieth Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. She also writes critically acclaimed adult novels as well. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages, and has over forty books to her credit.
| Название | Madame Doubtfire Penguin Readers (Graded Readers) Series Penguin readers (Том 3) Penguin readers. Level 3 Pre-Intermediate Penguin readers. Level 3 |
| Авторы | Anne Fine , J. Y. K. Kerr |
| составитель: | J. Y. K. Kerr |
| Издание: | перепечатанное |
| Издатель | Pearson Education, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0582418038, 9780582418035 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 40 |
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