Clarice Bean is worried that her family is losing their Christmas spirit. Her grandmother tells her to think like an elf, and find ways to help the people around her. She finds little things to do to serve others, and discovers that the Christmas spirit is not in the gifts you receive, but in showing others you care.

Even if you’ve never read a Clarice Bean book before, you will fall in love with this brilliantly narrated story of thinking about others, doing kind things and believing that your biggest Christmas wishes can come true. Clarice is a quirky and often hilarious narrator, but the loveliest thing about this book (as well as Lauren Child’s superlative collaged and sketched illustrations) is its warm-hearted celebration of sharing and families. There are many funny scenes where things go terribly wrong and it is hilarious! They get a huge tree that is way too big for their house. The turkey is accidentally dropped on the floor and then eaten by a mysterious dog or fox. Clarice Bean tries to make fudge, but it is a hazardous undertaking. This whole book is so funny! For Clarice and her extended family, the Christmas season brings a busy whirl of preparations, crises, and surprises. Child grew up in Wiltshire as the middle child of three sisters and the daughter of two teachers. She has always been interested in the many aspects of childhood, from gazing into toy shop windows to watching American children's shows from the 1960s. After attending two Art Schools, she travelled for six months, still unsure about which career to embark upon.The popular retailer teamed up with award-winning children’s author and illustrator Lauren Child CBE to bring a beloved children's book character to life. The magical scenes follow Clarice Bean as she desperately tries to save her family's Christmas and stop the festive spirit from completely floating away. The story of Think Like an Elf is told over the eight windows of the Northumberland Street store frontage where it introduces viewers to Clarice’s home, her family, and her friends.

Art has been around for thousands of years, but we keep ignoring it as if it’s just something that’s very nice.” An illustration from Clarice Bean: Think Like an Elf by Lauren Child. Mrs. Wilberton is Clarice Bean's Teacher. She does not seem to be particularly nice and is always telling Clarice off about her spelling. Clarice Bean describes Mrs. Wilberton as having a "honking goose voice" and "a big derriere". She also possesses a gait which Clarice Bean and Karl describe as "walking on trotters", and which Karl often impersonates.The story is full of holiday cheer, and I loved hearing about all the family traditions that Clarice Bean celebrated with her family. It got me into the holiday spirit! This year we are excited to have partnered with award-winning author, Lauren Child, to tell the story of Clarice Bean, Think Like an Elf. Christmas cannot be Christmas without the Christmas spirit, so it is important to keep an eye on it and not let it float away. The department store chain teamed up with children’s author and illustrator Lauren Child CBE to bring the children’s book character to life. Her book I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato won the 2000 Kate Greenaway Medal. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which comprised the shortlist for a public vote for the nation's favourite. It finished third in the public vote from that shortlist.

Christmas cannot be Christmas without the Christmas spirit, so it is important to keep an eye and not let it float away.”

There’s not enough understanding of how sophisticated picture books can be,” she said in her manifesto. Before writing and illustrating children's books Child started her own company 'Chandeliers for the People' making lampshades. It was only when she came to write and illustrate the book Clarice Bean, That's Me that she decided to devote her time to writing and illustrating books for children, which combines her fascination for childhood and her talent for designing and creating. Child gets her inspiration from other people's conversations or from seeing something funny happen. If we don’t understand that, then we don’t understand how amazingly sophisticated children are and that they think very deeply and powerfully about things. And we do them a disservice if we don’t see this.”

Think Like an Elf is a tale of the unwavering Christmas spirit of the beloved Clarice Bean as she navigates her way to a fun-filled, circus-inspired Christmas. The story is told over the eight windows of the Northumberland Steet store frontage where viewers are introduced to her home, her family, and her friends as she attempts to bring the circus to town this Christmas. Afterwards, alongside mixing colours for Damien Hirst and starting a chandelier company, she wrote and invented characters for books, films and television. It took five years for her first character, Clarice Bean, to be published. A spin-off series titled Ruby Redfort, which the US publisher called a "six-book middlegrade fiction series" in advance, was inaugurated in 2011. [1] Books [ edit ] Clarice Bean lebt mir ihren Geschwistern, Ohren Eltern und ihrem Opa zusammen. Sie freut sich sehr auf Weihnachten und ihr liebste Weihnachtslied ist "Zwölf Tage Weihnachten". The windows follow the story of Clarice Bean as she desperately tries to save her family’s Christmas and stop the festive spirit from completely floating away.

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I want her to make any child feel understood, because she says things that a lot of children feel. So whether they act in the same way as her is not really the point. It is whether they feel they can identify with her.” She thinks attitudes towards creative work for children, including books, illustration, art and music, need to change. And without those things, she is going to have to try exceptionordinarily hard to stop the Christmas spirit completely floating away…