Welcome to Clarice Bean’s crazy life, where bonkers is the new normal! There are six people in her family – too many! – & they’re all completely weird. Dad is always at work, & ‘up to his ears in it’. Mum spends her life gribbling about pants on the floor & shoes on the sofa. Clarice’s little brother, Minal Cricket, is utterly a nuisance. As for Clarice, she’s forced to spend most of her life in big trouble at school. But there is some good news: in these laugh-out-loud stories, she shares the wonderful madness of it all! A wonderfully wacky series by the current Children’s Laureate Lauren Child is the best-loved creator of Charlie & Lola She also writes the blockbusting new Hubert Horatio books She has won the Kate Greenaway Medal & Nestle Gold Award Clarice Bean is a true one-off with a fresh, distinctive voice“ Witty & charming. We can’t get enough of Clarice Bean.” Independent