An acclaimed and award-winning author of books for both adults and children, Anne Fine was the second Waterstones Children' s Laureate holding the post from 2001 to 2003. Fine began writing in the 1970' s and since then has written more than seventy books for children of all ages as well as novels for adults. Amongst her best-known works are Goggle-Eyes, which won both the Guardian Children' s Fiction Prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal, Flour Babies, which also won the Carnegie, Madame Doubtfire, later adapted into the hit children' s film Mrs Doubtfire, and Bill' s New Frock. In 2003 Anne Fine was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE.