LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
I love Clarice Bean. How can you not? Her unique voice. How bright and funny she is. Her keen observations. Her endless curiosity. Such a way with words!
As I read each book I can’t help but read out loud as her voice is so unique. She’s so wise, and a bit of a know it all. In the most UTTERLY brilliant way. If you haven’t the pleasure of her acquaintance yet, do not delay and go and buy one of her books right now.
In this the ninth Clarice Bean book, Clarice is 11 and has £6.67 in her piggybank. She’s still a huge fan of Ruby Redfort but is sad as her friend Betty Moody has moved away and it’s changed her world.
Accompany Clarice as she compiles her holiday assignment project about endangered species. Clarice is not that good at writing because she can’t get the spellings to spell but this is a project without writing, because sometimes you can see more without words. (Again, see how wonderfully wise she is!)
Multi award-winning former Children's Laureate Child wrote Smile, because she was finding news of climate change overwhelming and it felt impossible to make sense of the growing environmental crisis. Inspired by feelings of a lack of control, and feeling too small to make a difference Clarice's curiosity inspires us all to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Perennnial daydreamer Clarice wants to invent something that can change the world for the better, and inspired by the plankton, one of the tiniest creatures on the planet, she finds a way. This bundle of literary sunshine speaks for the importance of community and the power of the littlest thing to make a difference. And I gobbled it up!
Deborah Maclaren
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Smile Synopsis
Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children's Laureate Lauren ChildAt the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it's the better that's needed.And if you are thinking I'm too small to make a difference then remember the plankton - they are one of the tiniest creatures on the planet but without them where would we be? Probably living on Mars.The utterly wonderful Clarice Bean is thinking about the endangered things: the big creatures, the little creatures, the plants and the trees. But it's not just the planet that needs help - there's her whole family too . . .
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780008599621 |
| Publication date: |
8th May 2025 |
| Author: |
Lauren Child |
| Illustrator: |
Lauren Child |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
288 pages |
| Series: |
Clarice Bean |
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Press Reviews
Lauren Child Press Reviews
Praise for Scram:
‘Clarice Bean is one of the most distinctive comic voices of children’s literature’ Sunday Times, Book of the Week, Best Books of the Year
‘Superbly illustrated, slyly funny’ Guardian
‘Lauren Child knows what goes through a child's mind, and how to transfer those thoughts to the page . . . See for yourself by reading this entertaining tale’ Herald
‘A new Clarice Bean novel is always an event and Lauren Child’s Clarice Bean: Scram! brings us more of her distinctive voice and elegant quirky illustrations to delight in’ The Times, Best Books for Summer
Praise for the Clarice Bean series:
‘Witty and charming. We can’t get enough Clarice Bean’ Sunday Times
‘Oodles of comic charm’ Evening Standard
‘Funny, contemporary and perceptive’ Mail on Sunday
‘Clarice Bean fans will be delighted by her new adventures’ Guardian
‘Hugely enjoyable and touching’ Scotsman
‘Utterly fantastic’ Sunday Times
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About Lauren Child
Lauren Child is the author/illustrator of the much-loved Charlie and Lola books (now a major TV show) for very young readers, the Ruby Redfort series for older children and the Clarice Bean series for 7+ children as well as Hubert Horatio and many stand alone books.
Former Children's Laureate Lauren Child burst on to the children’s books scene in 1999 and has since published many bestselling and awardwinning books, including those featuring the hugely popular Charlie and Lola, and the Clarice Bean series. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Gold Award. Her books have been made into an award-winning TV series and have sold in many languages with runaway success.
In December 2008 she was named as a UNESCO Artist for Peace, and was awarded an MBE in 2009.
Lauren Child was the 10th Waterstones Children's Laureate. Of the role she said, “I want to inspire children to believe in their own creative potential, to make their own stories and drawings and ignite in them the delight of reading for pleasure. In an increasingly fast paced world, children need the freedom to dream and imagine; to enjoy reading, drawing and telling their own stories without value judgement or restraint”.
The role of Children's Laureate is awarded every two years to an author or illustrator of children’s books to “celebrate outstanding achievement in their field and recognise the important contribution children’s literature makes to cultural life”. Child’s tenure will ran until June 2019, which marked 20 years since the post was inaurgurated by Quentin Blake and since Child published her first book.
Child revealed that Blake was a huge inspiration to her. “When I was little, it never occurred to me to think of authors and illustrators as actual human beings," she said. "Then I saw Quentin on television live drawing on “Jackanory”, so he became a real-life illustrator to me and that made it something it was possible to become.”
Other previous post-holders include Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen and Malorie Blackman.
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