Cookie (Paperback)

Jacqueline Wilson

ISBN 10: 0552558311 / ISBN 13: 9780552558310

Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK, London, 2009

About this Item

Paperback. A wonderful tale of family life, friendship and cookies from the mega-bestselling Jacqueline Wilson.Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful criticism from her father. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules.Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Finding themselves in a quiet, idyllic seaside village, their new-found freedom and a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby, an income and even a new nickname for Beauty. Can they begin a happier, sweeter life - without Dad?A charming, page-turning and heart-warming story from this beloved author. Beauty Cookson is no beauty. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules.Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cookie (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552558311
• ISBN 13: 9780552558310
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Sharratt, Nick
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A wonderful tale of family life, friendship and cookies from the mega-bestselling Jacqueline Wilson.
     Beauty Cookson is no beauty.  She's a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school.  Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful criticism from her father. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules.

     Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Finding themselves in a quiet, idyllic seaside village, their new-found freedom and a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby, an income and even a new nickname for Beauty. Can they begin a happier, sweeter life--without Dad?

     A charming, page-turning and heart-warming story from this beloved author. 

About the Author

JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and  hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7.  She was been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal).  In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame.  She was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.

NICK SHARRATT has written and illustrated many books for chidren and won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award.  He has also enjoyed great success illustrating Jacqueline Wilson books.  Nick lives in Edinburgh.