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
About the Author
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. 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 edition of That Pesky Rat will go to UNESCO. A retrospective of Lauren's work starting at the Manchester Art gallery toured the country from 2008 to 2010.
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.