Ooh La La! Connie Pickles

Apr 11, 2025 3:38 AM

Author:Sabine Durrant

Connie Pickles is fulfilling her destiny. She's in Paris, and she has big plans. She will fall in love with someone other than William. She will find her long lost grandparents. She will become très chic. But sometimes even destiny doesn't go to plan . . .

Sabine Durrant has the laugh-out-loud humour of Louise Rennison, the sharp perception of Anne Fine and the instant girl-appeal of a younger Bridget Jones. Perfect for girls aged 11+.

Reviews

Great gung-ho stuff

—— Amanda Craig , The Times

Accessible and enjoyable read for boys and girls of ll upwards who like adventure stories

—— School Librarian

Thrilling

—— Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

Full of accurate and interesting survival tips as well as being an exciting story full of tense moments

—— Primary Times

Beneath its cold white cover a story of magnitude unfolds

—— Diane Samuels , Guardian

All demand to be read in translation of the originals and not sanitized retellings. Here, by examining letters, journals, annotations and posthumously unavailable papers, Zipes found some hitherto untranslated "ironic and macabre fables, humorous anecdotes, stories about the crusades, Norwegian legend, one 'feminist' tale among other things

—— Buffalo News

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