Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book, The Summer-House Loon, was published in 1978, and has now written more than fifty books and won virtually every major award, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Prize and others. Anne Fine was the Children's Laureate from 2001-2003. Her best-known books include Madame Doubtfire (which was made into the film Mrs Doubtfire), Goggle-Eyes and Flour Babies.