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Clarice Bean, That's Me

Lauren Child, Author

Paperback

Series: Clarice Bean

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: September 4, 2014

Category: Picture storybooks

ISBN: 9781408300046

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Meet the fabulously feisty Clarice Bean! In this hilarious picture book from Children’s Laureate, Lauren Child.

All Clarice Bean wants is a bit of peace and quiet. But that can be hard to find in a house where your little brother is being utterly annoying, your big brother is in the dark tunnel of adolescence and your grandad’s pouring soup on his cornflakes . . .

A true picture book classic, this is the book that launched the award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean series!

Packed with quirky details and humour, this is perfect for children who are ready to start making the transition from younger picture books to independent reading.

“A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud” Independent

Winner of the Smarties Book Prize

Reviews

The quirky perspectives show cheerful disregard for convention in this unusual take on family life

The Guardian

A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud

The Independent

Full of wonderfully dry one-liners

Times Educational Supplement

Laugh-out-loud funny gloss on family life

The Bookseller

Child's spot-on portrait of family life...has an anthropological quality reminiscent of Posy Simmonds' Weber family...exuberantly inventive

Books for Keeps

For a humorous and refreshingly honest look at family life, you can't get any better than this

The Bookseller

Brilliantly written and drawn by Lauren Child, the cringe-worthy details are a joy

The Guardian

A real treat. This is only Lauren Child's second book for children and I'm totally hooked

The Independent

Text and illustrations are united in giving this wittily ironic, child's-eye view of familiar characters and their foibles

The Guardian

Represents the arrival of a sparkling and irresistable new talent

Literacy and Learning

A modern classic

Sainsburys Magazine

It'll make you roar with laughter

Sunday Times

Wonderful to read aloud.

Sunday Express (Cressida Cowell)

Lauren Child

Lauren Child MBE is a multi-award-winning author and Waterstones 2017-2019 Children’s Laureate, whose books are known and loved the world over. She is the creator of many much-loved characters, including Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort. Since her first book was published in 1999, Lauren has sold over six million books in 19 languages worldwide. Her many awards include the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, the Nestle Gold Book Award for That Pesky Rat and the Nestle Bronze Book Award for Beware of the Storybook Wolves. Lauren is a UNESCO Artist for Peace and a Trustee of the House of Illustration, and has an MBE for services to literature. She loves designing and making things and finds it exciting to see her drawings turned into objects. Other favourite things include the cinema, TV matinees, small Italian cars, handbags, cardigans, travelling and being picked up from the airport.