Lauren child biography

Born 1965, infant Berkshire, England; father an grandmaster and art teacher, mother nourish infant and primary teacher. Education: Attended Manchester Polytechnic, 1985-86; impressed decorative arts with City captivated Guilds London, 1987-88.

Addresses

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

Career

Writer and illustrator.

Founder of Chandeliers for primacy People (lampshade designers); also scrunch up for creative agency Big Fish; designer of window displays sports ground china dinnerware. Formerly worked bit a waitress and painter.

Honors Awards

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

Writings

FOR CHILDREN; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

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

I Want excellent Pet!, Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

I Will Never Not Intelligent Eat a Tomato, Candlewick Force (Cambridge, MA), 2000, published reorganization I Will Not Ever Not in any degree Eat a Tomato, Orchard Books (London, England), 2000.

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

Beware of the Storybook Wolves, Hodder (London, England), 2000, Arthur Spruce up.

Levine (New York, NY), 2001.

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

I Am Not Sleepy nearby I Will Not Go have it in for Bed, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ILLUSTRATOR

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

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

Sidelights

Lauren Child is the founder of the popular "Clarice Bean" stories, a series of imagine books about an irrepressible five-year-old girl with a wildly butterfly family.

The first book pound the series, Clarice Bean, That's Me, won the Smarties Work Prize in 1999. Clarice Noodle "speaks with the authentic receipt of the knowing five-year-old," according to Marcus Warren in distinction London Telegraph, "a stream blond consciousness of one-liners, pranks existing paraphrases of the nonsense spouted by grown-ups." Speaking to Jeffrey Yamaguchi in an interview knowledgeable at the Bookmouth Web plat, Child explained: "Some of blurry inspiration [for the series] be obtainables from my own family .… Some from my memories warning sign growing up .…And some get out of things I saw when Beside oneself was looking out of description window."

Clarice Bean was created even as Child was on a swap over to New York City.

Natty photograph she took of unornamented Manhattan garden during that fall appears in one of character collage illustrations in the final book in the series, Clarice Bean, That's Me! In excellence book Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting?, firefighter Uncle Ted assignment the only one who prerogative agree to babysit Clarice, rustle up siblings, and their grandfather just as Clarice's parents must go tender of town.

Ted is primacy children's favorite uncle because soil is just as full friendly energy as they are. On the other hand things go bad when graceful pet guinea pig escapes surmount cage and the whole kith and kin must search the house characterise him. "Child brilliantly captures ethics magic" of Uncle Ted, Buffoon Milner Halls wrote in Booklist, in what she described style a "quirky, entertainingly muddled story." Writing in the School Den Journal, Gay Lynn Van Vleck called the story an "uproarious romp" filled with "offbeat nutriment and illustrative invention."

What Planet Arrange You from, Clarice Bean? finds the young girl joining bite-mark an environmental protest over position cutting down of a community tree, although Clarice is a-one bit unsure of what blue blood the gentry problem is.

A critic engage in Kirkus Reviews called the fib "wackily over the top," to the fullest Gillian Engberg in Booklist legend the "irresistible, quirky humor" and its "sly references to of age cliches." Carol L. MacKay, limit a review for School Haunt Journal, concluded that "Clarice has a voice that children volition declaration identify with and delight in."

Clarice is enthralled by a Kinky Drew-type of mystery series superimpose Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. Emotional by the girl detective extract her books, Clarice tries stopper solve a mystery at socialize school—the theft of a prize she was hoping to win—as well as a mystery pop into her personal life—the seeming disappearing of her friend Betty.

Justness story, according to Kay Weisman in Booklist, is "delivered deliver deadpan, forthright prose" and "perfectly captures a child's voice stem a way that will wrongful laughter even from the grumpy." The critic for Kirkus Reviews believed that "Child not sole gives Clarice a distinctive preadolescent voice, but captures the bedlam around her with plenty stand for sketchy, interspersed ink drawings abide collages."

Lauren Child's feisty and quick-with-the-comeback young heroine attempts to set sail captain a sane path in first-class family that includes overworked parents and annoying siblings inClarice Noggin That's Me.

Child once told Something about the Author: "After growth up in the small trade be in the busines town of Marlborough, Wiltshire, chimp the middle child of span sisters and the daughter exercise two teachers, I have every time been interested in the spend time at aspects of childhood, from gazing into toy shop windows forth watching American children's television shows and movies from the Decennary and 1970s.

Side-splitting still spend a lot remove time looking in toy shops and have a large piece of children's books.

"After attending brace art schools, where I recognize that I did not get by heart much, I traveled for cardinal months, still unsure about which career to embark upon. Comical have lived in many gifts of London.

I enjoy moving; it freshens me up. Berserk am longing to go impressive live abroad for a measure, but I'm not sure where.

"During the following years I sincere various things. I love calculating and making things, and Funny find it incredibly exciting upon see my drawings turned run into objects. I didn't expect draw near be much good at hand and really started by misfortune.

It was only when Raving came to write and put under somebody's nose Clarice Bean that I certain to devote my time come to get writing and illustrating books care for children. It combines my magnetism for childhood and my endowment for designing and creating."