The Oldest Girl in the World

The Oldest Girl in the World

by Carol Ann Duffy (Author)

Synopsis

In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses; meet, among others, a bad princess and a king of snide; discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests; and learn that, in a world where transformation is a way of life, what we want is not always what we get.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Oct 2000

ISBN 10: 0571205763
ISBN 13: 9780571205769
Book Overview: The Oldest Girl in the World by Carol Ann Duffy is a work of great and life-enhancing children's writing.

Author Bio
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.