My Funny Family's Got Talent (Butterfields #4)

Author(s): Chris Higgins

Fiction - junior

Mum's 30th birthday is coming up and after such a hectic year for the Butterfields, Mattie wants to make it extra-special. Aided by best friend Lucinda, Mattie decides a talent show to showcase the Butterfields' unique skills will be the best birthday surprise for Mum. With a host of unruly Butterfields and Lucinda's parents coming to watch, however, have Mattie and Lucinda bitten off more than they can chew?


Product Information

The return of the hugely popular Butterfield family

Chris Higgins has four daughters and is rapidly acquiring a whole bunch of grandchildren even though she feels far too young to be a granny. She lives in the far west of Cornwall with her husband. Before writing her first novel, "32C, That's Me", Chris taught English and Drama for many years in secondary schools. She also worked at the Minack, the open-air theatre on the cliffs near Lands End, but now writes full-time. Chris loves to travel when she gets the chance and has lived and worked in Australia as well as hitchhiking to Istanbul and across the Serengeti Plain. Her novels deal with issues that every teenager can identify with. She has also written two series for younger readers. Chris has won a number of awards including Young Minds, the Lancashire Book Award, the Lincolnshire Young People's Book Award, the KYBA, and she has been shortlisted twice for Queen of Teen.

General Fields

  • : 9781444918403
  • : Hachette Children's Group
  • : Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : 0.11
  • : December 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2014
  • : October 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chris Higgins
  • : Paperback
  • : 315
  • : Lee Wildish
  • : 823.92
  • : 128
  • : b/w throughout