Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out of boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child, and meet your new favourite heroine… Ruby Redfort: detective, secret agent, thirteen-year-old kid.

Praise for Lauren Child: ‘Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon’ – Observer Magazine ‘Lauren Child is so good it’s exhilarating’ – The Independent Praise for the Ruby Redfort series: ‘The coolest girl hero in years … Child refuses to write down to her tween and teen audience and challenges readers with more twists than a curling tongs party’ The Times ‘Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction’ The Times ‘The new Ruby Redfort book is utterly exceptionordinarily brilliant’ – Clarice Bean ‘Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood’ – Julia Eccleshare, Guardian ‘Cool, punchy, stylish’ – Sun ‘A cracking adventure’ – Mail ‘What more could adventure-loving girls want?’ – The Sunday Times

•Extraordinarily brilliant! Former Waterstones Children’s Laureate Lauren Child is the award-winning, best-selling author of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean and has sold 6 million books worldwide. • Ruby's paperback backlist has now been rebranded and the new look is sure to recruit new fans! • Hey buster, you asked for it and so did zillions of kids! Trailed to fans for over 9 years; child genius and super-spy Ruby Redfort first appeared in the Clarice Bean books as the star of Clarice’s utterly favourite books The Ruby Redfort Collection •So what is this, geek central? American 13 year old Ruby Redfort is super-clever and totally streetwise, with an individual style and quick witted one-liners. There’s a genuine gap in the tween fiction market for an aspirational lead girl character and Ruby is destined to become every smart girl’s heroine • Innovative and stylish branding will use consistent communication in the language of Ruby and slogans from the book, including ‘Bored beyond belief’ and ‘What a total yawn!’ • Lauren Child is an international bestseller, with lifetime sales worth over £13.6 million (Nielsen Bookscan, August 2014) • Her Ruby Redfort series has sold over 141,000 copies to date, incl her World Book Day offering, Hang in There, Bozo (Nielsen Bookscan, 2013) • Fantastic website packed with fun games, codes to solve and activities galore, www.rubyredfort.com.