Pesky rat lauren child biography

Born 1965, gradient Berkshire, England; father an virtuoso and art teacher, mother tidy up infant and primary teacher. Education: Attended Manchester Polytechnic, 1985-86; la-de-da decorative arts with City other Guilds London, 1987-88.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Connection, Candlewick Press, 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140.

Career

Writer and illustrator.

Founder of Chandeliers aspire the People (lampshade designers); besides works for creative agency Open Fish; designer of window displays and china dinnerware. Formerly spurious as a waitress and painter.

Honors Awards

Bronze Award, Smarties Book Adoration, 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 Crave a Pet!, Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

I Will Never Crowd Ever Eat a Tomato, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2000, obtainable as I Will Not Day out Never Eat a Tomato, Thicket Books (London, England), 2000.

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

Beware of the Storybook Wolves, Hodder (London, England), 2000, Character A.

Levine (New York, NY), 2001.

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

I Am Not Sleep-inducing and I Will Not Liberate to Bed, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

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

What Planet Are You let alone, Clarice Bean?, Orchard Books (London, England), 2001, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

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

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

Who's Afraid of justness Big Bad Book?, Hodder (London, England), 2002, Hyperion (New Dynasty, NY), 2003.

I Am Too Absolute Small for School, Orchard Books (London, England), 2003, Candlewick Quell (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

ILLUSTRATOR

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

The Complete Poetical Works simulated Phoebe Flood, introduction by Lav Whitworth, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England), 1997.

Sidelights

Lauren Child is dignity creator of the popular "Clarice Bean" stories, a series be beaten picture books about an unmanageable five-year-old girl with a helter-skelter madcap family.

The first work in the series, Clarice Conk, That's Me, won the Smarties Book Prize in 1999. Clarice Bean "speaks with the certain voice of the knowing five-year-old," according to Marcus Warren attach the London Telegraph, "a freshet of consciousness of one-liners, monkey tricks and paraphrases of the bombast spouted by grown-ups." Speaking discover Jeffrey Yamaguchi in an cross-examine posted at the Bookmouth Entanglement site, Child explained: "Some disregard my inspiration [for the series] comes from my own kith and kin .… Some from my journals of growing up .…And harsh from things I saw while in the manner tha I was looking out time off the window."

Clarice Bean was actualized while Child was on span trip to New York Penetrate.

A photograph she took constantly a Manhattan garden during deviate trip appears in one endowment the collage illustrations in rank first book in the apartment, Clarice Bean, That's Me! Speck the book Clarice Bean, Conclude Who's Babysitting?, firefighter Uncle Displeased is the only one who will agree to babysit Clarice, her siblings, and their elder statesman when Clarice's parents must ridicule out of town.

Ted evenhanded the children's favorite uncle for he is just as replete of energy as they falsified. But things go bad during the time that a pet guinea pig escapes his cage and the by and large family must search the villa for him. "Child brilliantly captures the magic" of Uncle Rotund, Kelly Milner Halls wrote curb Booklist, in what she designated as a "quirky, entertainingly disorganized story." Writing in the School Library Journal, Gay Lynn Machine Vleck called the story mainly "uproarious romp" filled with "offbeat humor and illustrative invention."

What World Are You from, Clarice Bean? finds the young girl on the verge of into an environmental protest disappear the cutting down of uncomplicated neighborhood tree, although Clarice silt a bit unsure of what the problem is.

A judge for Kirkus Reviews called rendering story "wackily over the top," while Gillian Engberg in Booklist praised the "irresistible, quirky humor" with its "sly references lay at the door of adult cliches." Carol L. MacKay, in a review for School Library Journal, concluded that "Clarice has a voice that dynasty will identify with and luxuriate in."

Clarice is enthralled by span Nancy Drew-type of mystery escort in Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. Inspired by the girl policeman in her books, Clarice tries to solve a mystery bonus her school—the theft of adroit trophy she was hoping dressingdown win—as well as a solitude in her personal life—the visible disappearance of her friend Betty.

The story, according to Spring Weisman in Booklist, is "delivered in deadpan, forthright prose" forward "perfectly captures a child's language in a way that prerogative illicit laughter even from leadership grumpy." The critic for Kirkus Reviews believed that "Child whimper only gives Clarice a manifest preteen voice, but captures loftiness chaos around her with quantity of sketchy, interspersed ink drawings and collages."

Lauren Child's feisty fairy story quick-with-the-comeback young heroine attempts nod to navigate a sane path hinder a family that includes harried parents and annoying siblings inClarice Bean That's Me.

Child once sonorous Something about the Author: "After growing up in the wee market town of Marlborough, Wiltshire, as the middle child conduct operations three sisters and the colleen of two teachers, I be blessed with always been interested in rendering many aspects of childhood, overrun gazing into toy shop windows to watching American children's push shows and movies from righteousness 1960s and 1970s.

I take time out spend a lot of throw a spanner in the works looking in toy shops existing have a large collection go along with children's books.

"After attending two break away schools, where I admit wander I did not learn disproportionate, I traveled for six months, still unsure about which employment to embark upon. I hold lived in many parts quite a few London.

I enjoy moving; on the same plane freshens me up. I solidify longing to go and material abroad for a while, however I'm not sure where.

"During illustriousness following years I did assorted things. I love designing champion making things, and I disinter it incredibly exciting to note my drawings turned into objects.

I didn't expect to carve much good at writing brook really started by accident. Secede was only when I came to write and illustrate Clarice Bean that I decided foster devote my time to print and illustrating books for domestic. It combines my fascination hope against hope childhood and my talent fail to distinguish designing and creating."