Goggle-Eyes
Goggle-Eyes, or My War with Goggle-Eyes in the US, is a children's novel by Anne Fine, published by Hamilton in 1989. It features a girl who thinks she hates her mother's boyfriend. In the frame story, set in a Scottish day school, that girl Kitty tells her friend Helen about hating her mother's boyfriend.
First edition | |
| Author | Anne Fine |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Publication date | 23 March 1989 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 140 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-241-12617-7 |
| OCLC | 411138475 |
| LC Class | PZ7.F495673 Go 1989 |
Fine won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. She also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011.
Goggle-Eyes was adapted for television by the BBC in 1993.
Little, Brown published a US edition under its Joy Street Books imprint in 1989, entitled My War with Goggle-Eyes.