Clarice Bean, That's Me

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Absolutely love Lauren Child's artistry in orchestrating a page, enabling words to become part of an image.

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Child's illustrations contain different media including magazine cuttings, collage, material and photography as well as traditional watercolours.Each half-hour format show contains two segments with different plots, each starting off with Charlie saying, "I have this little sister, Lola. Next year she won the Greenaway Medal for the first Charlie and Lola book, I Will Not Ever, NEVER Eat a Tomato.

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Lauren is also a passionate advocate for visual literacy and the importance of quality picture books for children. Except this year it is going to be a quiet-ish Christmas in her house, which doesn’t feel right because Christmas is all about noisiness and being full up and FAMILY. Wrap yourself in the warmth and wit of former Children’s Laureate Lauren Child and be transported by the love and laughter that is Christmas with the utterly irreplaceable Clarice Bean. Perhaps because this advice was given to me by someone successful, perhaps because I was hearing it when I was ready to listen, perhaps because it came from a total stranger, I took it on board. Other characters who feature in the stories are Charlie’s best friend Marv (who lives in the flat downstairs) and his sausage dog, Sizzles; Lola’s best friend Lotta; and Lola’s imaginary friend, Soren Lorensen.But I don’t say it because Mrs Wilberton is allowed to say rude things about me and I am not allowed to say them back. I came back to London and I made an appointment to see the UK publisher that at the time I most wanted to be published by. The love between the two children gently suffuses every story, while the quirky humour and mischievous behaviour ensure that it is never depicted in a sentimental manner.

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The delightfully-named Clarice Bean is an offbeat, quirky little girl who wears a dress covered in planets. Her work really grasped me as a child and made me realise how much fun literature could be - was just as fun being reunited with Clarice Bean as an adult! Perfect for getting 8 to 12 year olds in the Christmas spirit” was written in one review I read… well, it was perfect for getting this 39-year-old into the Christmas spirit!However, it was also near impossible to get anyone interested in taking me on as an illustrator of my own words. She finds little things to do to serve others, and discovers that the Christmas spirit is not in the gifts you receive, but in showing others you care. I then showed it to lots more publishers; just about all of them felt it was a problem to have the story told in the first person. The stories follow middle schooler Clarice Bean and her challenges navigating the complex ethical, social and philosophical questions children deal with at school and at home.

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I made her middle name Bean because I thought her parents were quite unconventional and might be the sort of people to give their child an unusual combination of names. My Uncle is a Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean - picture book - Clarice's parents have gone away and she is looked after by her Uncle.

As in the picture books, the typeface is not always set out in a conventional format - for example, Clarice’s stream-of-consciousness daydreaming at the beginning of Utterly Me, Clarice Bean (2002) swirls and drifts all over the page before being rudely interrupted by the extra large and dramatic font-size of her teacher shouting at her.