This is part of a series of beginning-to-read picture books. This humorous tale is about a little girl called Mavis Davis who is always singing. She had a nice voice, but she often sings at the wrong time or in the wrong place and is always getting into trouble at school.
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
