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Lauren Child MBE is a multi-award-winning author and Waterstones 2017-2019 Children's Laureate, whose books are known and loved the world over. She is the creator of many much-loved characters, including Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort. Since her first book was published in 1999, Lauren has sold over six million books in 19 languages worldwide. Her many awards include the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, the Nestle Gold Book Award for That Pesky Rat and the Nestle Bronze Book Award for Beware of the Storybook Wolves. Lauren is a UNESCO Artist for Peace and a Trustee of the House of Illustration, and has an MBE for services to literature. She loves designing and making things and finds it exciting to see her drawings turned into objects. Other favourite things include the cinema, TV matinees, small Italian cars, handbags, cardigans, travelling and being picked up from the airport.An imaginative and beautiful tale... Excellent
The Sun
Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating
Independent
Child gives a simple story about starting school extra layers of complexity and humour
Books for Keeps
Exciting, funny and memorable
Child Care
Lauren Child is a star
Guardian
A unique talent
Sunday Telegraph
No first-timer should start school without this book
The Sunday Times
A must for any child...she writes about the trials of childhood with a clairvoyant eye
The Independent
Deals sympathetically with children's fears surrounding the first day of school
Teesside Evening Telegraph
An exciting, funny and memorable read for both carers and children
Child Care
Done with all Child's usual wit and idiosyncratic style
Children's Bookseller
Fresh, provocative and sharp-witted
Carousel
With the author's trademark collages, funky, curly writing and soaring leaps of imagination, this book is set to become a modern classic
Daily Mail
This is a winner either as a read-aloud or for independent perusal
School Library Journal
Go straight out and beg, borrow or steal a copy of Lauren Child's latest book
Angels & Urchins
Perfect preparation for school - not preachy or scary, just charming
Scottish Sunday Mail
An exceptional starting school book full of diversity in print, presentation and illustration
Scholastic
Child is the Tracey Emin of illustration for young children: provocative, fearless, funny but full of spirit and warmth
The Independent
An imaginative and beautiful tale
The Sun
Lauren Child is a must for any child...feels fresh and instantly consoling
The Independent
The perfect preparation for reception as it covers many of the normal fears about starting school
Mumsnet
A modern classic from Lauren Child.
The School Run