"Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating." The Independent One of today's most successful creators of children's books, Lauren Child is the winner of several awards, including Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal for Clarice Bean, That's Me. Lauren lives in North London.
What Bridget Jones is to thirtysomethings, Clarice Bean is to pre-teens: full of funny one-liners, doing her best to overcome her shortcomings, prone to embarrassing mistakes and good at heart ... The story, like Child's doodles, is witty and charming and crams a lot of meaning into apparent simplicity ... We can't get enough of Clarice Bean. -- Sunday Times 20040901
What Bridget Jones is to thirtysomethings, Clarice Bean is to pre-teens: full of funny one-liners, doing her best to overcome her shortcomings, prone to embarrassing mistakes and good at heart ... The story, like Child's doodles, is witty and charming and crams a lot of meaning into apparent simplicity ... We can't get enough of Clarice Bean. -- Sunday Times 20040901
PW called Clarice Bean, who graduated from picture books to chapter books in Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, "once again,... utterly a charmer." In the heroine's second paper-over-board chapter-book adventure, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Lauren Child, she is again obsessed with Ruby Redfort, the 11-year-old secret agent star of her book, and attempts to help a friend by following fictional Ruby's rules, all this while preparing for a spelling bee and attempting to land a leading role in The Sound of Music. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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