Status
Checked out
Due 26-02-2023
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Publication
Roaring Brook Press (2014), 354 pages
Description
Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful criticism from her father. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules.Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Finding themselves in a quiet, idyllic seaside village, their new-found freedom and a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby, an income and even a new nickname for Beauty. Can they begin a happier, sweeter life - without Dad?
User reviews
LibraryThing member AriadneAranea
The reason Jacqueline Wilson is so great is that she writes about girls who have real-life problems, in a way that is positive and humorous. In this case, Beauty Cookson has no friends, no self-confidence, and a Dad who is very controlling and flies into a terrible rage at the slightest thing,
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belittling Beauty and her Mum at every turn and completely unable to understand their point of view at all. You know it'll all turn out more or less OK in the end, the only question is how - and whether Beauty will ever get a rabbit like Lily... :) Show Less
LibraryThing member atreic
More of the ever-enjoyable same from Jacqueline Wilson. As in so many of her recent books, she lapses into metaness (this time it's A Little Princess, and a TV show with a white rabbit), and her teenage-misery-lit is starting to feel a little repetitive. But it's a good read.
LibraryThing member Eilidh1799
This book is really good!
LibraryThing member Lucky132
A brilliant book
LibraryThing member HeatherLINC
A nice little story for younger readers although the way Cookie talked to the TV presenter and his rabbit was really annoying and spoilt an otherwise good book.
Language
Original publication date
2008-10-09
ISBN
0552558311 / 9780552558310
Other editions
Cookie by Jacqueline Wilson (Paperback)