When I embarked on Clarice Bean, That’s Me, I think I sort of tricked myself into writing something personal and different.

Lauren Child - Literature - British Council Lauren Child - Literature - British Council

Finally, in 1998, Frances Lincoln said “yes” to I Want A Pet and it was published in the spring of 1999. The Clarice Bean series is a series of children's books written and illustrated by English author Lauren Child from 1999. Perhaps because this advice was given to me by someone successful, perhaps because I was hearing it when I was ready to listen, perhaps because it came from a total stranger, I took it on board. I had made attempts at writing picture books some years before – my motivation had mainly been necessity since it was near impossible to get work as an illustrator of other people’s words and few publishers seemed keen to take a chance on someone with no track record.Her second book in this series, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble was shortlisted for the 2005 British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. She suggested that I send my portfolio to her business manager, to see if she had any advice or even the vaguest idea about what I should be doing. Unfortunately, Kingfisher couldn’t get an American co-publisher for the book and without that they felt it was impossible to publish. Though Clarice started life as a picture-book character, Child has now written several novels about her adventures.

Clarice Bean Story page — milkmonitor.me - Lauren Child The Clarice Bean Story page — milkmonitor.me - Lauren Child

A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books, and Child’s characters and stories in many ways echo Milne’s writing as well as Shepherd’s illustrations. Child’s titles, particularly those in the ‘Charlie and Lola’ series, appear at first glance to be toddler-like statements, yet they also capture the ‘inner child’ that most adults (if they are being honest) will recognise in themselves.A television series based on her 'Charlie and Lola' books has been made into an animated series for CBBC, and she has written several books recently which are based on these tales. Initially fictional, the Ruby Redfort series was later written by Child, with the first book published in 2011. Bean’s hilarious hijinks and misadventures, coupled with the nostalgic tidings of Christmas tradition will warm your family’s heart and remind you that if all else fails, you’ve still got each other. Lauren Child was born in Berkshire in 1965 [6] and was raised in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where her father led the art department at Marlborough College and her mother taught in a primary school. I was so surprised to find this on the shelf that I instantly snapped it up and didn’t regret it once.

Clarice Bean series - Wikipedia

However, though Child is very happy with the series, the dictates of children’s television and political correctness have forced various changes.Child introduced Charlie and Lola in 2000 with I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato and won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's most "distinguished illustration in a book for children". She is often described as having a fascination with childhood, yet it is more than this, for it encompasses an exploration of human nature as a whole. There were 31 highly commended runners-up in 29 years including Lauren Child and Chris Riddell in 1999.