title: The Jamie and Angus Stories
author:  Anne Fine 
description: Anne Fine was named the second British Childrens Laureate in 2001. A distinguished writer for readers of all ages with more than forty books to her credit - including the hilarious ALIAS MADAME DOUBTFIRE - she is a two-time winner of both the Whitbread Childrens Novel Award and the Carnegie Medal, Britains most coveted childrens literature award. She has also won the GUARDIAN Childrens Literature Award and a Smarties Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages.<br /><br />Penny Dale has illustrated numerous acclaimed books for children, including her own TEN IN THE BED, TEN OUT OF BED, TEN PLAY HIDE-AND-SEEK, and BIG BROTHER, LITTLE BROTHER.
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  HAVE YOU SEENher yet?"
  
  
  "Nay, I have not," Angus McTern said for what seemed like the hundredth time.
  He had
  
  
  just come in from the hills, and he was wet, tired, hungry, and cold, but all
  anyone could
  
  
  talk about was Neville Lawler's fancy English niece, come to the old castle to
  look down
  
  
  her nose at the poor Scots.
  
  
  "You should see her," young Tam said as he tried to keep pace with his
  cousin's long
  
  
  stride. Angus was usually glad to see Tam, but not if all he could talk about
  was Lawler's
  
  
  niece. "She has hair like gold," the boy said, his voice cracking. He was just
  coming into manhood, and what the girls said, did, and looked like was
  everything to him. "She has
  
  
  eyes as blue as a loch, and her clothes! Never did I see such clothes as she
  has. They're
  
  
  spun by the angels and trimmed by honeybees. She--"
  
  
  "But then you've never been anywhere to see much to compare her to, now have
  you,
  
  
  lad?" Angus said--and everyone stopped to look at him in astonishm