Flower Street friends

A new set of stories about the friendship between two girls of different races by the winner of the 1991 Whitbread Children's Novel Award.

All the streets where Lily Larkin lives are named after flowers, just like Lily herself.

Not that Lily looks much like a flower: she is short and sturdy with wild ginger hair and pink specs and with one red sock and one yellow one.

She lives at 22 Crocus Street with her mum and her brother, Sam, in the middle flat above her gran, who has the flat downstairs.

The upstairs flat is empty until the day that Shanta and her family move in.

Lily and Shanta hit it off at once and have lots of fun together digging and washing cars and sharing a special snowy Christmas.Diana Hendry is the author of "Dog Dottington", "Christmas in Exeter Street", "Fiona Finds Her Tongue" (shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize), "Sam Sticks and Delilah", "Kid Kibble", "Wonderful Robert and Sweetie-Pie Nell", "Hannah and Darjeeling", "The Dream Camel and the Dazzling Cat", "Double Vision" and "Harvey Angell" (winner of the 1991 Whitbread Children's Novel Award).