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The Tulip Touch by: Anne Fine

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Rating: - The Tulip Touch

Laura Martin from Oak Farm Community School, England. Natalie hasn't got many friends but when she sees Tulip in the gardern she finds her excited with her games which at first seems as there just for fun. Natalie's Dad owns a Palace which they live in and also use as a hotel. Tulip used to be around there alot but when Natalie realises that Tulip is going a bit too far she goes off the idea of playing them games such as 'All the grey people' and 'Road of Bones' and doesn't really see her anymore, but there's one last thing which makes Natalie realise how Tulip really is!

Rating: - A touching and slightly dark tale of 2 very different friend

I went out and bought this book as soon as I heard about it. I would recommend this for children aged 10+ and believe it shows some very moving and relavent issues. It is a sad but well written tale of two friends who have such different lives which becomes more evident as the book comes to the end. Its not a fairy tale happy ending book but never the less a very good one by a brilliant author.

Rating: - Utterly compelling and truthful book

This book is quite simply the best book I have ever read aimed at a child audience on the difficult subject of abuse and parental derelication of responsibility. It is a chilling read - never graphic, but all the more sinister for the way it implies the despair - , and bravely and rightly asks children to put themselves in the main character's position constantly. What would I do about Tulip? Could I make a difference? Should I even try?

And at the centre of the book is Tulip herself, surely one of the most fascinating characters to appear in any children's novel. She has so many aspects - a richly imagined, complex, irrational, sometimes appealing and sometimes frightening character. Fine manages to make us believe in her and sympathise so much with her plight.

Fantastic.

Rating: - This was a mysterious book with an unpredictable ending.

I found the Tulip Touch quite an unpredictable book. My first impressions of Tulip were that she was a strange girl. When Tulip was first introduced she was in a middle of a field holding a kitten with its eyes still closed. It was there Natalie first met Tulip. When it was time for school the next day Natalie was in the playground and she saw Tulip by the fence. She wallked up to Tulip and said "Do you want to be friends." I felt quite sorry for Tulip as apart from Natalie, Tulip had no friends. But later on in the book the tables turned and it was Natalie who I felt sorry for. Tulip had a strong hold on Natalie and could make her do things she would never even dream of. The more Tulip was with Natalie the more Natalie would get into trouble. Until one day there friendship ended and when Natalie did something she shouldn't have done to Tulip. It was then Tulip acted in a most alarming way.

Rating: - An exellent choice!

Well, how can i possibly find the words to express the feeling of reading such a wonderful book! I have read the book twice because I enjoyed it so much the first time! I recommend this book to people who are probably about 13 or over because some parts are a little deep and may be hard for a younger child to understand. I have read many books in my time but this one just about tops the lot! I especially enjoyed reading it knowing that my favourite authour, Anne Fine, had wrote it! If you read this Anne then congratulations on writing yet another fabulous book!

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