Clarice Bean, That's Me - Couverture souple

Child, Lauren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184121583X ISBN 13 : 9781841215839

Editeur : Orchard Books, 2000

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lauren Child grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. She is the middle of three sisters and both her parents are teachers. She has had a variety of jobs from waitressing to designing exotic, elegant lampshades and working as an artist's assistant to Damien Hirst. Lauren Child is considered one of the most talented children`s book author/illustrators working today and has won 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. Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, Lauren`s first fiction title, was a runaway success all over the world followed by Clarice Bean Spells Trouble and Clarice Bean, Don`t Look Now. Lauren has now sold over 3 million books in 19 countries across the globe. Notable events in Lauren`s career include selection for Quentin Blake`s Magic Pencil Exhibition `British Library` in 2005; the Charlie and Lola TV series winning a BAFTA in 2007; In 2008 Lauren was appointed Artist for Peace by UNESCO and has been spearheading a project to raise money for UNESCO`s Programme for the Education of Children in Need , called My Life is a Story. All profits from the sale of a special e dition of That Pesky Rat will go to UNESCO. A retrospective of Lauren`s work is now a major new exhibition at the Manchester Art gallery. Lauren 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.

Revue de presse :

Wonderful to read aloud. (Sunday Express (Cressida Cowell) 2014-11-30)

It'll make you roar with laughter (Sunday Times 2001-02-25)

Laugh-out-loud funny gloss on family life (The Bookseller 2000-03-03)

Child's spot-on portrait of family life...has an anthropological quality reminiscent of Posy Simmonds' Weber family...exuberantly inventive (Books for Keeps 1999-09-01)

For a humorous and refreshingly honest look at family life, you can't get any better than this (The Bookseller 1999-04-09)

Brilliantly written and drawn by Lauren Child, the cringe-worthy details are a joy (The Guardian 1999-10-02)

A real treat. This is only Lauren Child's second book for children and I'm totally hooked (The Independent 1999-07-07)

Text and illustrations are united in giving this wittily ironic, child's-eye view of familiar characters and their foibles (The Guardian 1999-12-14)

Represents the arrival of a sparkling and irresistable new talent (Literacy and Learning)

A modern classic (Sainsburys Magazine 1999-12-01)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Orchard Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 184121583X
• ISBN 13: 9781841215839
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32