SuitabookCandyfloss
Jacqueline Wilson
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your child if they would value help discussing family change or financial hardship. The chapter-opening illustrations invite predictions, and the glossary can help with unfamiliar British expressions.
- Themes
- Family separation and loyalty: Floss stays with her father when her mother’s family moves away temporarily, and she misses her mother. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Money insecurity: Floss’s father’s café fails, bringing serious debt and a change in where they live. Financial hardship is a substantial part of the situation, but its evaluative treatment cannot be confidently determined.
- School friendship and bullying: Floss experiences cruel rumours and name-calling from peers as her friendships shift. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Expect serious money problems and threatened homelessness, as well as bullying and adult drunken or bawdy behaviour. A fire-related rescue is also described; the overall intensity and detail of these scenes are unclear.