Lizzie Zipmouth by Jacqueline Wilson

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    LIZZIE ZIPMOUTH
    A YOUNG CORGI BOOK 978 0 552 55784 9
    First published in Great Britain by Young Corgi, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books A Random House Group Company
    First Young Corgi edition published 2000
    This Young Corgi edition published 2008
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About the Book
    Do you ever play with dolls? Don’t worry, I don’t think it’s at all babyish to like dolls. I played with my dolls up until I was about ten, though I didn’t really tell my friends just in case they teased me.
    I think it’s so sad that lots of girls stop playing with their Barbies and Bratz by the time they’re six or so. I still love dolls even now. They sit in special places all over my house. I’ve got a doll with brown glass eyes and ringlets called Mad Alice who’s over 150 years old, and she reclines decoratively on my Victorian chaise longue. I have another gentle Victorian china doll called Mabel who sits up straight in her own little chair. There are carved wooden dolls and soft cloth dolls and a row of tiny plastic baby dolls arranged on my shelves.
    There are two characters in this book who love dolls too. One is Lizzie – and the other is her very fierce Great-gran. She can be very scary at times but somehow Lizzie isn’t frightened of her. Lizzie won’t talk to anyone – but she will whisper to Great-gran. Later in the story it’s Lizzie’s turn to help Great-gran to speak.
    Lizzie is a little bit like me when I was little – and Great-gran is a little bit like my mum!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    JACQUELINE WILSON is one of Britain’s most outstanding writers for young readers. She is the most borrowed author from British libraries and has sold over 25 million books in this country. As a child, she always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling countless exercise books as she grew up. She started work at a publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which was named after her) before turning to writing fiction full-time.
    Jacqueline has been honoured with many of the UK’s top awards for