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The Story So Far: Lauren Child
By Catherine O'Dolan on 16/01/2013 14:43:24
A potted history of one of our best-loved children's author, creator of Charlie And Lola
After studying art at Manchester Polytechnic and London Art School, Lauren worked in a variety of jobs, including painting dots for Damien Hirst. In 1999, her first two picture books were published I Want A Pet (Frances Lincoln, £5.99) and Clarice
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Lauren Child's top five children's books
By Fiona McKim on 22/11/2012 17:31:54
The Clarice Bean, That’s Me and the Charlie And Lola author picks her favourite reads
Eloise by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight (Simon & Schuster, £6.99)This book is just beautiful. Written in 1955, yet it feels thoroughly modern. I first found Eloise after I couldn’t get my first Clarice Bean book published. I was told that you couldn’t write picture books in the ...
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Lauren Child's new book Maude The Not-So-Noticeable Shrimpton
By Catherine O'Dolan on 16/01/2013 14:39:53
Acclaimed children's author pens a quirky cautionary tale – but employs an illustrator for the pictures
“SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL, she was talented, she was funny. Of course, I hated her,” says Lauren Child, talking about her first impressions of American artist, Trisha Krauss, whom she hadn’t even met at the time. This was nine years ago, when Child was due
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Trisha Krauss on illustrating Maude: The Not-So-Noticeable Shrimpton
By Catherine O'Dolan on 16/01/2013 16:26:40
Meet the Shrimptons, the flamboyant family at the centre of the vibrant children's book collaboration with Lauren Child
Were you nervous about illustrating a book by Lauren Child, when her fans might expect her to illustrate? Yes, that did cross my mind, as I am not at all stylistically like her, and I feared some might say “What a letdown. What a bad attempt at a
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Fairytales with a twist
By Kimberley Chen on 03/04/2012 22:01:53
These picture books have magically reinvented the traditional fairytales…
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book? by Lauren Child (Hodder Children’s Books, £6.99)When Herb falls asleep in the middle of reading his book of fairytales he's startled to wake up to a screeching, impatient Goldilocks, and realises he's actually
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Puffin Books celebrate 70 fabulous years of brilliant picture books
By Catherine O'Dolan on 28/04/2010 16:19:13
A behind-the-scenes peek at the Puffin Picture Book Boutique
-long celebrations for Puffin Books. Guests and invitees, including Lauren “Charlie & Lola” Child, were treated to a special reading by the Children's Laureate, Anthony Browne, harking back to his early days of illustrating wrapping paper, accusations of plagiarism
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Celebrating illustration at Liberty
By Catherine Hudson on 04/06/2011 09:45:00
The new summer selection of Liberty print fabrics has been inspired by the wonderful world of children's illustration
at £19.95 per metreIllustration: Lauren Child’s Clarice Bean visualisation
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Picture books about pets
By Fiona McKim on 11/04/2012 12:26:39
Five brilliant books about fluffy family friends
I Want A Pet by Lauren Child (Frances Lincoln, £5.99)Lauren Child's tale of an animal loving little girl and her not-so-keen family has typically witty rhetoric and inventive, sketchy illustrations. Children who find their demands for a menagerie
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Cressida Cowell's Top Five Children's Books
By Fiona McKim on 28/11/2011 16:36:51
The author of How To Train Your Dragon and This Rabbit Belongs To...picks her personal favourite reads
That Pesky Rat by Lauren Child (Orchard, £5.99)"That Pesky Rat lives alone in a dustbin, but is looking up at the stars, longing to be somebody's pet. A wonderful story about love and loneliness in the big city".Buy That Pesky Rat
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Nick Sharratt's All-Time Favourite Children's Books
By Fiona McKim on 23/11/2011 15:32:24
The well-loved illustrator of Tracy Beaker picks his personal top five
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Puffin, £5.99)"A gigantic success with good reason – belongs on every child's bookshelf. Brilliant". The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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