Who Ate All The Pies?
I love this book! It’s about ten year old Holly Woolcock. Holly is the Parrs’ stalwart defender; tough, solid and resilient at the back. She lives with her dad Andy a lorry driver and her step-mum Tracie who is a lunchtime supervisor at a primary school.
Holly has a great relationship with her dad – after all, it was just the two of them for years until he met Tracie. They go everywhere together including the home games at Leicester City every other Saturday. The best bit, as far as Holly is concerned, being the fish and chips before the match, the sweets during and the Chinese take-away after! The treats are all part of the ritual.
The trouble is all those take-aways add up and both Holly and her Dad are overweight. ‘We’re just big boned,’ Dad says. ‘Yeah, big bones covered in chocolate,’ Holly laughs.
But when one of the opposition team calls her names during a match Holly is upset, even though she hides it. To make matters worse, she thinks skinny-bones Tracie is trying to trick her into dieting and as if that wasn’t bad enough, Holly arrives at training one day and instead of drills she finds they’re having a talk on – guess what – HEALTHY EATING. Was everybody ganging up on her? If so they could get lost because she liked being like she was, didn’t she? As far as Holly is concerned everybody can butt out and concentrate on other things, like voting for the end of season players’ player of the year for instance…
This is a great book that covers a sensitive issue. Read how Holly deals with having ‘big bones covered in chocolate’ and let me know what you think.
Out November 3rd. Walker Books £4.99