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    • Lauren Child

    English author and illustrator (born )

    Lauren Margot Peachy ChildCBE (born Helen Child; 29 November ) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quentin Blake, Carl Larsson, and Ludwig Bemelmans.

    Child introduced Charlie and Lola in with I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato and won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's most "distinguished illustration in a book for children". For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (–), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which comprised the shortlist for a public vote for the nation's favourite. It finished third in the public vote from that shortlist.

    Life

    Lauren Child was born in Berkshire in and was raised in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where her father led the art department at Marlborough College and her mother taught in a primary school. She was the middle child of three daughters. She changed her first name from Helen to Lauren when she was a child. She attended St John's School and, from 16, Marlborough College. She studied Art briefly at Manchester Polytechnic and later at City and Guilds of London Art School. She started her own company, Chandeliers for the People, making lampshades. Between and she worked for the design agency Big Fish and includes its founder Perry Haydn Taylor in the dedications of her books.

    Two picture books both written and illustrated by Child were published in , and also issued in the U.S. within the year:I Want a Pet! and Clarice Bean, That's Me. The latter, published by Orchard Books, inaugurated the Clarice Bean series, was a highly commended runner-up for the Greenaway Medal, and made the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize shortlist.

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    • About the Author

    Lauren Child (born in in England) is an English author and illustrator. She is best known for writing the Charlie and Lola books and Clarice Bean novels. Her second book in this series, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. A show more number of spin off books are available based on the scripts of the TV shows, though these were not written or illustrated by Child. Charlie and Lola has been sold throughout the world, and has won many prizes, including BAFTAs in for Best children's Television Show and Best Script. She writes the Ruby Redfort series. Book six, Blink and You Die, is on the bestseller list. Lauren Child lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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    Series

    Works by Lauren Child

    Associated Works

    The Secret Garden() — Illustrator, some editions — 37, copies, reviews
    Pippi Longstocking() — Illustrator, some editions — 11, copies, reviews

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    Legal name
    Child, Helen (birth name)
    Birthdate
    Gender
    female
    Nationality
    UK
    Birthplace
    Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, UK
    Places of residence
    Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, UK
    Manchester, England, UK
    London, England, UK
    Education
    St John's Marlborough
    Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England, UK
    Manchester Polytechnic
    City and Guilds of London Art School
    Occupations
    children's book author
    illustrator
    Awards and honors
    MBE
    Children's Laureate ()

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    Reviews

    Hans Christian Andersen's brief fairy-tale, The Princess and the Pea, is significantly expanded in this retelling by Lauren Child, author of the popular Charlie and Lola books. The bare-bones narrative is fleshed out, as the romantic young Prince longs for a girl who is "more mesmerizing than the moonmore fascinating than all

    Lauren Child () Biography

    Born , in Berkshire, England; father an artist and art teacher, mother an infant and primary teacher. Education: Attended Manchester Polytechnic, ; studied decorative arts with City and Guilds London,

    Addresses

    Agent—c/o Author Mail, Candlewick Press, Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

    Career

    Writer and illustrator. Founder of Chandeliers for the People (lampshade designers); also works for creative agency Big Fish; designer of window displays and china dinnerware. Formerly worked as a waitress and painter.

    Honors Awards

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

    Writings

    FOR CHILDREN; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

    Clarice Bean, That's Me!, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA),

    I Want a Pet!, Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA),

    I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), , published as I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, Orchard Books (London, England),

    My Uncle Is a Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean, Orchard Books (London, England),

    Beware of the Storybook Wolves, Hodder (London, England), , Arthur A. Levine (New York, NY),

    My Dream Bed, Hodder (London, England),

    I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA),

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

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

    Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, Orchard Books (London, England), , Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA),

    That Pesky Rat, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA),

    Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?, Hodder (London, England), , Hyperion (New York, NY),

    I Am Too Absolutely Small for School, Orchard Books (London, England), , Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA),

    ILLUSTRATOR

    Margaret Joy, Addy the Baddy, Viking (London, England),

    The Complete Poetical Works of Phoebe Flood, introduction by John Whitworth, Hodder & Stough

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