When a primary school in Anne Fine’s home town is asked to provide three children to interview her, there’s a frenzy of reading and writing. Two weeks later Victoria, Jess and Edward arrive on Anne’s doorstep clutching a long list of questions. Anne’s warmth and enthusiasm soon relaxes them as they chat in her beautiful riverside garden about how she’d like to be an opera singer but can’t sing, why Round Behind the Icehouse is the special favourite of her books and how she ‘pinched’ Flour Babies from a newspaper article.
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DVD Contents:

Chapter One: ‘A Life of Books’ (Main film: Running time 35 mins)

Chapter Two: Garden Interview (30 mins)

What the author says about the film...

Anne Fine: "I so enjoyed being interviewed at home by three bright readers and there were plenty more questions when I went back with them to their school. It’s good to think this is a visit that can be shared (and so cheaply and easily!) with so many other classes."