Madame Doubtfire door Anne Fine

Title of the Book: Madame Doubtfire
Author: Anne Fine
When was the book first published? 1987
Where was the book first published? Penguins Books, London

Explain the title:
Madame Doubtfire is the cleaning lady from the family Hilliard.

Give the book another title and explain your choice:
Family Hilliard, that’s the family where madame Doubtfire is cleaning.

What sort of book is it? (Genre): Humor

Give the names of some of the main characters in the book:
1) Daniel Hilliard
2) Miranda Hilliard
3) Christopher Hilliard
4) Lydia Hilliard
5) Natalie Hilliard

Describe the main character. What does he/she look like and what sort of person are they. You must back this up with “quotes” from the book itself.

Daniel Hilliard.

He’s very smart and funny, because he’s playing a woman, a cleaning lady and a babysitter, for his own children.

He’s a grownup man, and he was married with Miranda Hilliard. Now, they live apart. His job is to be a model for people, and he does that without clothes.

You have to write a short piece in the school magazine giving your opinion on the book. Should fellow pupils read it or not etc:
If you want to read a very funny book, you should read this one.
Miranda and Daniel Hilliard are living apart. Miranda wants a cleaning lady and a babysitter. Daniel goes undercover as cleaning lady to his ex-wife, because he wants to be with his children.

Summary:
Daniel and Miranda Hilliard live apart. Every Tuesday and two weekends in a month the children come to Daniels house. But most of the time they live with their mother. On a Tuesday, when the children are with Daniel, Daniel tells his children that he has a new job. The children find his job funny because he must be a model for people and he does that without clothes. The children tell their dad that Miranda also is looking for a cleaning woman. Daniel had a wonderful idea. When Miranda comes for the children to pick them up, Daniel notices the advertisement and asks if he can see it. Quick when Miranda is busy Daniel puts a line through Miranda’s telephone number and wrote his number instead. Then he gives it back to her.

Later Miranda only got 4 telephone calls. That was surprising. All the woman who called had strangely low voices. The last call she had was a good call. She thought that the woman was very nice. Her name was Madame Doubtfire. Miranda said that she had 2 girls and one boy. Madame Doubtfire was a very big person. Miranda noticed that the strange woman had a lot of make-up on her face.

Christopher, Lydia and Natalie already know that Madame Doubtfire was their dad. But they didn’t say anything to their mother. But at a Tuesday Daniel had to stand model for a few people. And that was at Miranda’s house. Then Miranda came home. She found out what Daniel did, Miranda told Daniel to leave and so he did.

Finally, the war between Daniel and Miranda was over...