Bills new frock anne fine carti

With Anne Fine's early reader (and Carnegie Medal nominee for 1989) Bill's New Frock, one morning, main protagonist Bill Simpson wakes up to find that he has suddenly physically been transformed into a girl (although internally, emotionally, Bill actually still feels that he is a boy and not at all a girl).

But Bill's mother, she is totally unperturbed, seems to just accept Bill suddenly being a girl and then forces her son to put on a pretty and frilly pink frock (a pink dress in American English) and hence the book title being Bill's New Frock.

And once at school, Bill is also approached by everyone as a girl, is supposed to behave sedately, quietly and must realise and come to term with the reality that girls are (even in the late 20th century when Bill's New Frock is taking place) seen very differently than boys, that for example girls are expected to keep their clothes neat, tidy and frilly whilst boys are allowed to be rowdy and often