Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for both adults and children. Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize as well as Britain's most coveted award for children's literature, the Carnegie Medal. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies, which also won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. Her novel Madame Doubtfire was adapted into the phenomenally successful film Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Having written over fifty books for children of all ages, Anne Fine became Children's Laureate in 2001.