An utterly special 20th anniversary edition of the classic picture book, with CD featuring THREE Clarice Bean stories read by Claire Skinner, star of the BBC series Outnumbered.
All Clarice Bean wants is a bit of peace and quiet. But that can be hard to find in a house where your little brother is being utterly annoying, your big brother is in the dark tunnel of adolescence and your grandad’s pouring soup on his cornflakes . . .
This special 20th anniversary edition comes complete with an audio CD featuring all three Clarice Bean picture books:
Clarice Bea, That’s Me
Clarice Bean: My Uncle is a Hunkle
Clarice Bean: What Planet Are You From?
A true picture book classic, this is the story that launched the award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean series!
“A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud” Independent
Winner of the Smarties Book Prize
Over half an hour of audio content, with music and sound effects
All Clarice Bean wants is a bit of peace and quiet. But that can be hard to find in a house where your little brother is being utterly annoying, your big brother is in the dark tunnel of adolescence and your grandad’s pouring soup on his cornflakes . . .
This special 20th anniversary edition comes complete with an audio CD featuring all three Clarice Bean picture books:
Clarice Bea, That’s Me
Clarice Bean: My Uncle is a Hunkle
Clarice Bean: What Planet Are You From?
A true picture book classic, this is the story that launched the award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean series!
“A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud” Independent
Winner of the Smarties Book Prize
Over half an hour of audio content, with music and sound effects
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Reviews
For a humorous and refreshingly honest look at family life, you can't get any better than this
A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud
Laugh-out-loud funny gloss on family life
Text and illustrations are united in giving this wittily ironic, child's-eye view of familiar characters and their foibles
Represents the arrival of a sparkling and irresistable new talent
A modern classic
Full of wonderfully dry one-liners
Brilliantly written and drawn by Lauren Child, the cringe-worthy details are a joy
The quirky perspectives show cheerful disregard for convention in this unusual take on family life
Child's spot-on portrait of family life...has an anthropological quality reminiscent of Posy Simmonds' Weber family...exuberantly inventive
It'll make you roar with laughter
Wonderful to read aloud.
A real treat. This is only Lauren Child's second book for children and I'm totally hooked
