Lauren Child

She was born in November 29, 1965 in Berkshire. She is a writer and illustrator. She has written many books she is well know for her books Charlie and Lola which has also been turned into a television series. And also another of her well know book series is Clarice Bean

In her teens she attended the city and Guilds art school but she left after only a year attending instead of school she chose the working world. What she did was before her career started she became an assistant for artist Damien Hirst and started her own company of making lamp shades. Then she moved onto illustration and she wrote and her own book called Clarice Bean, That’s Me I early 1990 it did take a few years fer her to find a publisher to publish the book though in 1999.

Clarice Bean is about a five year old and she lives in a madcap family. She created the character Clarice when she was on a trip to New York. In each of the books you will find Clarice in a predicament that children can relate too. As the series continued the young Clarice has grown up and the more recent volumes take her from a picture book to a chapter book format. In new ones she tries too solve a mystery at her school the theft of a trophy she was hoping that she would win and also another mystery the disappearance of her best friend. ." A critic for Kirkus Reviews wrote that "Child not only gives Clarice a distinctive preteen voice, but captures the chaos around her with plenty of sketchy, interspersed ink drawings and collages."

Clarice Bean Utterly Me by Lauren Child

After the Clarice series she moved onto Charlie and Lola for the toddler set, Lauren tells interactions between the big brother and her little sister, this has also been made into a television series and the books are all illustrated using the stills from the series.

One of the books called I Am Too Absolutely Small for School addresses Lola's nervousness at heading off to the first day of school. The book describe the brother and sister as Lola is an opinionated and determined attitude and that Charlie has the ability to gently wooing her onto the better path through his child's eye view of the world that have made the "Charlie and Lola" books extremely popular with both parents and children.