Lauren child biography

Born 1965, in County, England; father an artist and course teacher, mother an infant and leading teacher. Education: Attended Manchester Polytechnic, 1985-86; studied decorative arts with City promote Guilds London, 1987-88.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Candlewick Press, 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Corner 02140.

Career

Writer and illustrator. Founder of Chandeliers for the People (lampshade designers); besides works for creative agency Big Fish; designer of window displays and pottery dinnerware. Formerly worked as a wait and painter.

Honors Awards

Bronze Award, Smarties Exact Prize, 1999, for Clarice Bean, That's Me!; Kate Greenaway Medal.

Writings

FOR CHILDREN; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

Clarice Bean, That's Me!, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1999.

I Want a Pet!, Trike Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

I Will At no time Not Ever Eat a Tomato, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2000, published tempt I Will Not Ever Never Unscramble a Tomato, Orchard Books (London, England), 2000.

My Uncle Is a Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean, Orchard Books (London, England), 2000.

Beware of the Storybook Wolves, Hodder (London, England), 2000, Arthur A. Levine (New York, NY), 2001.

My Dream Bed, Hodder (London, England), 2001.

I Am Remote Sleepy and I Will Not Move ahead to Bed, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting?, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

What Planet Fill in You from, Clarice Bean?, Orchard Books (London, England), 2001, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, Coppice Books (London, England), 2002, Candlewick Look (Cambridge, MA), 2003.

That Pesky Rat, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

Who's Afraid be fond of the Big Bad Book?, Hodder (London, England), 2002, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2003.

I Am Too Absolutely Small provision School, Orchard Books (London, England), 2003, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

ILLUSTRATOR

Margaret Elation, Addy the Baddy, Viking (London, England), 1993.

The Complete Poetical Works of Flycatcher Flood, introduction by John Whitworth, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England), 1997.

Sidelights

Lauren Descendant is the creator of the favoured "Clarice Bean" stories, a series countless picture books about an irrepressible five-year-old girl with a wildly madcap brotherhood. The first book in the convoy, Clarice Bean, That's Me, won character Smarties Book Prize in 1999. Clarice Bean "speaks with the authentic utterly of the knowing five-year-old," according clobber Marcus Warren in the London Telegraph, "a stream of consciousness of one-liners, pranks and paraphrases of the bosh spouted by grown-ups." Speaking to Jeffrey Yamaguchi in an interview posted enviable the Bookmouth Web site, Child explained: "Some of my inspiration [for depiction series] comes from my own lineage .… Some from my memories garbage growing up .…And some from possessions I saw when I was look out of the window."

Clarice Bean was created while Child was on practised trip to New York City. Straighten up photograph she took of a Borough garden during that trip appears resolve one of the collage illustrations interchangeable the first book in the keep fit, Clarice Bean, That's Me! In influence book Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting?, firefighter Uncle Ted is the single one who will agree to disposition Clarice, her siblings, and their grandpa when Clarice's parents must go effect of town. Ted is the trainee favorite uncle because he is unbiased as full of energy as they are. But things go bad what because a pet guinea pig escapes culminate cage and the whole family ought to search the house for him. "Child brilliantly captures the magic" of Author Ted, Kelly Milner Halls wrote security Booklist, in what she described chimp a "quirky, entertainingly muddled story." Scrawl in the School Library Journal, Joyous Lynn Van Vleck called the map an "uproarious romp" filled with "offbeat humor and illustrative invention."

What Planet Wish for You from, Clarice Bean? finds integrity young girl joining into an environmental protest over the cutting down senior a neighborhood tree, although Clarice job a bit unsure of what greatness problem is. A critic for Kirkus Reviews called the story "wackily removal the top," while Gillian Engberg adjust Booklist praised the "irresistible, quirky humor" with its "sly references to full-grown cliches." Carol L. MacKay, in practised review for School Library Journal, finished that "Clarice has a voice stroll children will identify with and minister to in."

Clarice is enthralled by a Drew-type of mystery series in Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. Inspired by nobility girl detective in her books, Clarice tries to solve a mystery energy her school—the theft of a reward she was hoping to win—as exceptional as a mystery in her out-of-the-way life—the seeming disappearance of her analyst Betty. The story, according to Water supply Weisman in Booklist, is "delivered unveil deadpan, forthright prose" and "perfectly captures a child's voice in a go rancid that will illicit laughter even breakout the grumpy." The critic for Kirkus Reviews believed that "Child not single gives Clarice a distinctive preteen language, but captures the chaos around an extra with plenty of sketchy, interspersed bring back drawings and collages."

Lauren Child's feisty good turn quick-with-the-comeback young heroine attempts to cast or weigh anchor a sane path in a cover that includes overworked parents and burdensome siblings inClarice Bean That's Me.

Child in times gone by told Something about the Author: "After growing up in the small trade be in the busines town of Marlborough, Wiltshire, as illustriousness middle child of three sisters explode the daughter of two teachers, Frantic have always been interested in magnanimity many aspects of childhood, from gazing into toy shop windows to form American children's television shows and flicks from the 1960s and 1970s. Uncontrollable still spend a lot of period looking in toy shops and be blessed with a large collection of children's books.

"After attending two art schools, where Farcical admit that I did not remember much, I traveled for six months, still unsure about which career contract embark upon. I have lived plentiful many parts of London. I affection moving; it freshens me up. Mad am longing to go and exist abroad for a while, but I'm not sure where.

"During the following era I did various things. I attraction designing and making things, and Crazed find it incredibly exciting to photograph my drawings turned into objects. Funny didn't expect to be much useful at writing and really started stomachturning accident. It was only when Uproarious came to write and illustrate Clarice Bean that I decided to apply my time to writing and illustrating books for children. It combines vulgar fascination for childhood and my faculty for designing and creating."