Clarice Bean, That's Me

Meet the fabulously feisty Clarice Bean in this hilarious short story. Brilliantly read by Claire Skinner - star of BBC's 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 . . .

"A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud" Independent

Written by former Children's Laureate, Lauren Child, this is the story that launched the award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean series!

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Wonderful to read aloud.

It'll make you roar with laughter

Laugh-out-loud funny gloss on family life

Child's spot-on portrait of family life...has an anthropological quality reminiscent of Posy Simmonds' Weber family...exuberantly inventive

For a humorous and refreshingly honest look at family life, you can't get any better than this

Brilliantly written and drawn by Lauren Child, the cringe-worthy details are a joy

A real treat. This is only Lauren Child's second book for children and I'm totally hooked

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

The quirky perspectives show cheerful disregard for convention in this unusual take on family life

A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud

Full of wonderfully dry one-liners