{"product_id":"clarice-beanisbn-9780763627881","title":"Clarice Bean","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Fans of Child's irrepressible, impulsive picture-book heroine — as well as kids who have not yet had the pleasure of making her acquaintance — will devour her first chapter-book adventure.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIt's not easy to concentrate at school when mysterious things are happening all around you. In fact, Clarice Bean is starting to feel just like her favorite heroine: Ruby Redfort, schoolgirl detective. Clarice and her utterly best friend, Betty Moody, are planning to ace their book project about Ruby and win the class prize, until Betty disappears into thin air, and horrible teacher Mrs. Wilberton teams Clarice up with the naughtiest boy in school. Will her new partner ruin everything? Will Betty ever come back? And what on earth happened to the silver trophy everyone's hoping to win? Lauren Child brings her trademark wacky wit and eccentric visual energy to a full-length, fast-paced Clarice Bean episode that will charm even the most capricious reader.Clarice   Bean is the more literate version of Junie B. Jones: sassy, slightly too   confident of her abilities, winning in her no-nonsense view of the world.\u003cbr\u003e—Newsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA   perfect choice for reading aloud or for newly independent chapter-book   readers, this will utterly captivate a wide audience.\u003cbr\u003e—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFans of   Child's irrepressible, impulsive picture-book heroine — as well as kids who   have not yet had the pleasure of making her acquaintance — will devour her   first chapter-book adventure. . . . Once again, Clarice Bean is utterly a   charmer.\u003cbr\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe   flibbertigibbet, middle-child star of three picture books jumps to a more   extended format without losing her exuberance, short attention span, or   stream-of-consciousness style of narration.\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus ReviewsLauren Child says that she does a lot of staring into space, which is how she thought up the character of Clarice Bean, now the spunky subject of four illustrated books. When Lauren Child was younger, she liked watching cartoons and overhearing conversations, and her ambition was to wear sunglasses on top of her head. She still likes to watch cartoons and overhear conversations, and she claims to have achieved her ambition. Lauren Child has written and illustrated numerous other books, including I WILL NEVER NOT EVER EAT A TOMATO, which won the Kate Greenaway Medal. The author-illustrator lives and works in London, England.This is me, Clarice Bean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am not an only child, but I sometimes wish I was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy family is six people, which is sometimes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etoo many. Not always, just sometimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy dad is mostly in an office on the phone, going, \"I can't talk now — I'm up to my ears in it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMom is always gribbling about pants on the floor and shoes on the sofa. She says, \"This house doesn't clean itself, you know. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who do you think does everything around here? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Nobody? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't get paid to pick up your smelly socks! If I did, I'd be a rich woman.\" etc. etc. non stop. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am the third oldest, and I think it would have been a good idea if I was the youngest, too. I am not quite sure why my mom and dad wanted to have more children after me. They don't need another one and it's a shame because he is spoiling it for everyone else. He is called Minal Cricket and he tends to be utterly a nuisance. He is nonstop whining and causing other people to get themselves in trouble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou might think it would be a relief to come to school, but if you do, then obviously you don't know some of the people in my class. Naming no names, i.e., Grace Grapello, what a showoff.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes I stare boredly into space, thinking utterly of nothing. This makes Mrs. Wilberton very irritated. I get on her nerves. I know this because she is always telling me I do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be honest, Mrs. Wilberton is not my favorite person on the planet of Earth. Unfortunately, I am from Earth and she is my teacher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003cbr\u003eUTTERLY ME, CLARICE BEAN by Lauren Child. 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