The Tulip Touch

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The Tulip Touch is a children's novel by Anne Fine published in 1996.[1] It focuses on the friendship between two girls, Tulip and Natalie, and what happens as Tulip's behaviour becomes obsessive and violent.[2] The book won the 1996 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award, and in 1997, was Highly Recommended for the Carnegie Medal.[2] Fine has said that The Tulip Touch was influenced by the Jamie Bulger Murder. The main themes of this novel is Friendship and Family abuse. [3]

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  1. ^ The Tulip Touch (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
  2. ^ a b The Tulip Touch (HTML). Penguin Books Ltd. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
  3. ^ An Interview with Anne Fine (HTML). Authors of the Month. Pearson Longman. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.