 Front cover | |
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Nick Sharratt |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel （12-15） |
| Publisher | Doubleday (first edition, paperback) |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Pages | 190 |
The Mum-Minder is a children's novel written by Jacqueline Wilson. It was first published in 1993.
It starts off with Sadie's mum catching the flu during half term. Sadie has a little sister called Sara, as well as the children that her mum looks after, called Gemma, Vincent and little baby Clive.
Sadie's mum is a childminder. Each day, they come round to Sadie's house so that her Mum can look after them while they are at work. Two days into half term, Sadie's mum gets the flu. To give Sadie's mother a chance to recuperate, the other children's mothers come up with a solution to take Sadie and the other kids to their workplaces for the rest of the week: Wednesday is the police station (Gemma's mum's job), Thursday is the office (Vincent's parents' job) and Friday is the chocolate shop (Clive's mum's job). Unfortunately, Sadie catches her mum's flu, so she can't return the holiday diary she was sent to do as homework from school...
According to AudioFile, who called The Mum-Minder "a very funny story", "Jacqueline Wilson never fails to deliver a perfect story from the child's point of view". [1]
Christina Hardyment, writing for The Independent, found that the book includes "quite a bit of snide comment on parental types, but the point of the tale is to give children a sense of their own competence". [1]
In a review of the audiobook, AudioFile indicated that narrator Sophie Aldred "sounds great as tiny children, harried parents and snooty grandparents" as she takes the readers "along as the children wreak havoc in a police station [...], help office workers cope without a paper shredder and droolingly visit a chocolate shop". [2]
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