Baby Baby

by Vivian French

"We're the girls people look at and suck in their lips and shake their heads at."

April thinks Pinkie is amazing with her bright pink hair and biker boots. Pinkie would rather not think about April at all. Pretty clothes and snow white trainers aren't Pinkie's style.

But there's something about April that gets under Pinkie's skin, and it only gets worse when the girls find themselves together in the Tinley Road Centre for Schoolgirl Mothers...

100 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

Vivian June Isoult French MBE was born in 1945 and educated at Exeter University.
Vivian French was best known in school for being extremely skinny and for talking a lot. At school she developed an attachment to words and later became an actor, then a storyteller, and finally a writer of children's books. She is the author of more than two hundred books. Ms. French lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has four grown daughters.

Reviews

[Su · Rating 3 out of 5]

teen pregnancy and motherhood. Two girls from different worlds who can't understand each other end up sharing the same situation. Pinkie the Goth, Pinkie the Punk, Pinkie the independent do-as-I-like girl on the one hand and April the spark clean middle-class I-can't-be myself girl on the other.