Clarice Bean Spells Trouble Award-winning author by Lauren Child (author) (UK edition)

Havoc breaks out when Miss Wilberton decides to put on a school play of The Sound of Music. Clarice is desperate to play the part of Leisl – she would utterly be great at it! – but that will involve persuading Miss Wilberton that she won’t be any TROUBLE. Meanwhile, the school spelling bee is approaching, and naughty boy Karl Wrenbury is in a really bad fix. Can Clarice take a leaf out of Ruby Redford’s book – the leaf where it says ‘never let a good pal down’ – even if it means landing herself in bigger trouble than ever? Creating a fresh, funny voice that just leaps from the page, and an engaging moral dilemma for Clarice to tussle with, this warm and sympathetic story spells entertainment all round!

Product Details

Format

Hardback, Paperback

ISBN

9781843628583

Publisher

Orchard Books

Date published

May 5th, 2005

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.3; Middle years; 4.0 points

Other details

144 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Lauren Child

Lauren Child burst on to the children’s books scene in 1999 and has since published many bestselling and award-winning books, including those featuring the hugely popular Charlie and Lola, and the Clarice Bean series.
Lauren was born in 1967, and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. After studying Art at Manchester Polytechnic and London Art School, she worked in a variety of jobs, including assistant to Damien Hirst. She also started her own company, ‘Chandeliers for the People’, making exotic lampshades.

Her first children’s book Clarice Bean, That’s Me won a Bronze medal at the Nestle Smarties Book Awards. In 2000, she won the prestigious Kate Greenaway medal for I Will Not Ever, Never Eat a Tomato followed by a second Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for That Pesky Rat. Clarice Bean became the star of Lauren’s first novel Utterly Me, Clarice Bean in 2002, and went on to appear in two more novels. A television series based on her Charlie and Lola books has also become a huge hit for CBBC.

Lauren Child first introduced the character of Ruby Redfort in her three award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean novels. Since then she has been inundated with letters from fans asking for the Ruby Redfort books. And it must have worked, because the first two in the series, Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes and Ruby Redfort: Take Your Last Breath have already been published to great critical and commercial success.

Lauren Child’s illustrations contain many different mediums including magazine cuttings, collage, material and photography as well as traditional watercolours. Lauren lives in London, where she works for the Design Agency ‘Big Fish’. In 2008 she was announced as UNESCO’s Artist for Peace and in 2010 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.