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  • Published: 9 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448199273
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

Polly Price's Totally Secret Diary: On Stage in America



Wonderful, eye-catching young fiction from author/illustrator Dee Shulman that all young girls will be instantly drawn to. Designed to look like a girl's real diary, with full-colour illustrations.

Meet Polly Price, owner of the world's most embarrassing mother: actress and all-round airhead Arabella Diamonte. Who has just been cast in a touring production of a new play, meaning Polly is heading to San Francisco for what may well turn out to be the craziest summer holiday of her life... Read Polly's wonderfully funny diary as she records the mishaps and mayhem backstage, before all of a sudden the spotlight is on her!

  • Published: 9 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448199273
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

About the author

Dee Shulman

Dee Shulman has written and/or illustrated about fifty books for children, ranging from board books to teenage fiction. Her books have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Dutch and Finnish, been highly recommended in the press and on radio and shortlisted for numerous awards.

Dee has a degree in English from York University and went on to study Illustration at Harrow School of Art. She began her illustration career in magazines, cartoon strips and pop-video storyboards, and only started writing for children when her own children were small. Despite a diet of gummy bears and sherbert fountains, her children have insisted on growing up - so her characters have had to grow up with them, and now even they refuse to do what they're told!

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Praise for Polly Price's Totally Secret Diary: On Stage in America

Bubbly, bright and bang up-to-date, it's hard to imagine that the innovation Dee Shulman here brings to books for newly-confident readers doesn't match the innovation the change from black-and-white to technicolour broadcasting must have effected!

Jake Hope

Dee Shulman has created a real hit for young readers with her charming full-colour illustrations and interactive concept for My Totally Secret Diary

4girlz

This fab journal covers issues that affect everyone, like mate problems

Bliss

Polly Price's sparkly silver scrapbook My Totally Secret Diary: On Stage In America by Dee Shulman is full of funny observations about adult foibles

Daily Mail

My Totally Secret Diary: On Stage in America is the fantastic new must-have story starring Polly Price. You'll be laughing out load as she gets into all all sorts of hilarious situations with the help of her mother! With cool illustrations on every page, Polly's Diary is all about what growing up is really like

BBC Switch Magazine