Reading Ladder Level 2 : Under the Bed

Anne Fine is one of Britains most distinguished writers for both adults and children. She has twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Childrens Book of the Year Award, as well as the Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize, the Smarties Prize and numerous other regional and foreign awards. She has twice been voted Childrens Author of the Year. The BBC have screened adaptations of several of her books, and her novel Madame Doubtfire was transformed into a Hollywood film starring Robin Williams in 1993.

Anne was Childrens Laureate from 2001-3, during which time she set up www.myhomelibrary.org, a website that continues to offer a host of freshly designed and freely downloadable modern bookplates to enthuse children to form their own home libraries from the second hand books around them. She also published three classic anthologies of poetry for different ages, called A Shame to Miss 1, 2 & 3.

She has published eight highly acclaimed black comedies for adults, and her work has been translated into forty-five languages. In 2003 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and awarded an OBE. Anne has two daughters and seven grandchildren, and lives in County Durham, UK.

Her most recent book for Egmont is: UNDER THE BED.