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'''KANE Lauren Child is a mexican''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (born 1965)<ref name="Bedell">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/21/lauren-child-childrens-author-inverview|title=Child at heart|publisher=The Observer|date=21 June 2009|accessdate=8 July 2010|location=London|first=Geraldine|last=Bedell}}</ref> is an [[England|English]] author and [[illustration|illustrator]]. She is best known for writing the ''[[Charlie and Lola]]'' books and [[Clarice Bean series|''Clarice Bean'' novels]].
''' Lauren Child is a mexican''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (born 1965)<ref name="Bedell">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/21/lauren-child-childrens-author-inverview|title=Child at heart|publisher=The Observer|date=21 June 2009|accessdate=8 July 2010|location=London|first=Geraldine|last=Bedell}}</ref> is an [[England|English]] author and [[illustration|illustrator]]. She is best known for writing the ''[[Charlie and Lola]]'' books and [[Clarice Bean series|''Clarice Bean'' novels]].


Helen Child was born in 1965, the middle child of three daughters. She later changed her first name to Lauren.<ref name="Bedell"/> She attended [[St John's School and Community College|St John's School]] and from 16, [[Marlborough College]], where her father was Head of Art.<ref>BBC Radio 4 programme, where achievers re-visit their schools: ''Top of the Class: Lauren Child'', 11 August 2008.</ref> She studied Art briefly at [[Manchester Polytechnic]] and later at [[City and Guilds of London Art School]],<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/10/lola_child.shtml BBC Press Release including bio]</ref> after which she worked in a variety of jobs, including as a painting assistant to [[Damien Hirst]]. She also started her own company, 'Chandeliers for the People', making exotic lampshades together with the actor Andrew St Clair; it was not a commercial success, though the lampshades are instantly recognisable as Child's work and highly valued. Between 1998 and 2003 she worked for the design agency 'Big Fish'.
Helen Child was born in 1965, the middle child of three daughters. She later changed her first name to Lauren.<ref name="Bedell"/> She attended [[St John's School and Community College|St John's School]] and from 16, [[Marlborough College]], where her father was Head of Art.<ref>BBC Radio 4 programme, where achievers re-visit their schools: ''Top of the Class: Lauren Child'', 11 August 2008.</ref> She studied Art briefly at [[Manchester Polytechnic]] and later at [[City and Guilds of London Art School]],<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/10/lola_child.shtml BBC Press Release including bio]</ref> after which she worked in a variety of jobs, including as a painting assistant to [[Damien Hirst]]. She also started her own company, 'Chandeliers for the People', making exotic lampshades together with the actor Andrew St Clair; it was not a commercial success, though the lampshades are instantly recognisable as Child's work and highly valued. Between 1998 and 2003 she worked for the design agency 'Big Fish'.

Revision as of 13:38, 29 May 2012

Lauren Child is a mexican MBE (born 1965)[1] is an English author and illustrator. She is best known for writing the Charlie and Lola books and Clarice Bean novels.

Helen Child was born in 1965, the middle child of three daughters. She later changed her first name to Lauren.[1] She attended St John's School and from 16, Marlborough College, where her father was Head of Art.[2] She studied Art briefly at Manchester Polytechnic and later at City and Guilds of London Art School,[3] after which she worked in a variety of jobs, including as a painting assistant to Damien Hirst. She also started her own company, 'Chandeliers for the People', making exotic lampshades together with the actor Andrew St Clair; it was not a commercial success, though the lampshades are instantly recognisable as Child's work and highly valued. Between 1998 and 2003 she worked for the design agency 'Big Fish'.

In 1999 she had two picture books published, I Want a Pet! and Clarice Bean, That's Me, the latter being shortlisted for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. In 2000 she won a Kate Greenaway Medal for I Will Not Ever, NEVER Eat a Tomato and a second Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for That Pesky Rat. In the same year, she wrote her first children's novel, Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. Her second book in this series, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble was shortlisted for the 2005 British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. The third novel in the series, Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now was published in 2006.

Child's humorous illustrations contain many different media including magazine cuttings, collage, material and photography as well as traditional watercolours. As well as being author of several highly successful books, she is the illustrator of the Definitely Daisy series by Jenny Oldfield.

A television series based on her Charlie and Lola books was made by Tiger Aspect for Disney/CBBC, on which Child was an Executive Producer. Three series of 26 episodes were made and two specials. A number of spin off books are available based on the scripts of the TV shows, though these were not written or illustrated by Child.[4] Charlie and Lola has been sold throughout the world, and has won many prizes, including BAFTAs in 2007 for Best children's Television Show and Best Script.

Bibliography

Author and Illustrator

As illustrator only

Prizes and awards

  • 1999 Clarice Bean, That's Me won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award[5]
  • 1999 Clarice Bean, That's Me shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2000 I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato won the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2000 Beware of the Storybook Wolves won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award[5]
  • 2000 Beware of the Storybook Wolves shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2001 What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean? won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award[5]
  • 2002 That Pesky Rat won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award[5]
  • 2002 That Pesky Rat shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2002 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2002 Utterly Me, Clarice Bean longlisted for the Carnegie Medal[6]
  • 2003 I Am Too Absolutely Small for School longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2004 Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]
  • 2005 Clarice Bean Spells Trouble shortlisted for the British Children's Book of the Year
  • 2005 Clarice Bean Spells Trouble shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award
  • 2005 The Princess and the Pea longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal[6]

Child was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[7][8]

Charlie and Lola

Charlie and Lola is a series of picture books made by Lauren Child and now is a children's TV show. Each half-hour format show contains two segments with different plots, each starting off with Charlie saying, "I have this little sister, Lola. She is small and very funny."

Clarice Bean

Clarice Bean is also a picture book and novel series by Lauren Child that is for children/young teenagers. Her full name is Clarice Bean Tuesday. She is best friends with Betty P Moody, and Karl Wrenbury is another friend of hers. Clarice Bean is a fan of a book series called Ruby Redfort (Lauren Child is writing a series for Ruby Redfort , started in 2011 ), enemies with Grace Grapello and Mrs Wilberton (her teacher) and is a not a very good speller and she day-dreams a lot. Her family consists of her mum, dad, younger brother Minal Cricket, older sister Marcie, her even older brother Kurt, her grandad and her granny who lives in America and who phones regularly. Those books are:

  • Clarice Bean That's Me - picture book - about Clarice's big family.
  • My Uncle is a Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean - picture book - Clarice's parents have gone away and she is looked after by her Uncle.
  • What Planet Are You From Clarice Bean? - picture book - Clarice and her brother Kurt try to save Planet Earth.
  • Utterly Me, Clarice Bean - novel - Clarice has to do a dreary book project but there's a prize she wants to win.
  • Clarice Bean Spells Trouble - novel - Clarice is in big trouble it's all because of spelling.
  • Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now! - novel - Clarice has a worry list and is wondering what her worst worry is.

Ruby Redfort series

In 2009 Lauren signed a new six book deal with HarperCollins for the release of her Ruby Redfort series. Ruby Redfort, undercover agent and mystery solver, is familiar to Lauren's readers as Clarice Bean's favourite literary character.

Ruby is a genius code-cracker, a daring detective, and a gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be a thirteen-year-old girl. She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into loads of scrapes with evil villains, but they’re always ice-cool in a crisis.

The first book in the series, Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes was released in September 2011 in hard back, with the paper back to be released in July 2012.

The secret codes used in the book were developed by Lauren and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy.

References

  1. ^ a b Bedell, Geraldine (21 June 2009). "Child at heart". London: The Observer. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  2. ^ BBC Radio 4 programme, where achievers re-visit their schools: Top of the Class: Lauren Child, 11 August 2008.
  3. ^ BBC Press Release including bio
  4. ^ BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hours
  5. ^ a b c d Nestlé Children's Book Prize
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
  7. ^ "No. 59282". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 31 December 2009.
  8. ^ New Year Honours

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