Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Flour Babies
Anne Fine · 1995
84/100
👍 Worth It
Anne Fine's Carnegie Medal winner is funny, tender, and genuinely surprising — watching a disengaged teenage boy bond with a bag of flour while quietly coming to terms with the father who left is a premise that should not work as well as it does. The humor keeps it from ever becoming maudlin, and the emotional honesty about parental absence is the kind of thing that stays with a reader long after the last page.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety88
substance84
craft86
originality80
accuracy85
hype74
age-fit84
human-eye86
Penny’s verdict84
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