This is such a cute book! Clarice Bean is such a funny little kid. She has her own perspective on things and I love all her little quirks. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. No cleanup reason has been specified. Please help improve this article if you can. ( November 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Clarice Bean is worried that her family is losing their Christmas spirit. Her grandmother tells her to think like an elf, and find ways to help the people around her. She finds little things to do to serve others, and discovers that the Christmas spirit is not in the gifts you receive, but in showing others you care. The Clarice Bean series is a series of children's books written and illustrated by English author Lauren Child from 1999. The stories follow middle schooler Clarice Bean and her challenges navigating the complex ethical, social and philosophical questions children deal with at school and at home.

The story is full of holiday cheer, and I loved hearing about all the family traditions that Clarice Bean celebrated with her family. It got me into the holiday spirit!

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Betty Moody is Clarice Bean's best friend, and they do most things together. Clarice and Betty both love the Ruby Redfort series. Betty also loves dogs, and in the first book she received a dog from Clarice's grandad's best friend. She appears in the series wearing glasses. She and her parents traveled a lot, along with call-me-Mol and call-me-Cecil. In the last book, she moves to San Francisco because call-me-Mol goes to California for a vacation, but finds a job and decides to stay there. The writing does such a good job of letting us see things from Clarice Bean's perspective, and it really captures her childish voice. And without those things, she is going to have to try exceptionordinarily hard to stop the Christmas spirit completely floating away…

Except this year it is going to be a quiet-ish Christmas in her house, which doesn’t feel right because Christmas is all about noisiness and being full up and FAMILY. She thinks attitudes towards creative work for children, including books, illustration, art and music, need to change. An important plot device is the Ruby Redfort collection, a series of fictional books in which Clarice Bean and Betty Moody frequently find inspiration. They are about a young, American girl, who is an undercover secret agent. In Clarice Bean Spells Trouble, Clarice and Betty also watch the Ruby Redfort television series, which was adapted from the books. In Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, it is revealed that Hollywood are adapting it into a film. There are nine books in the Ruby Redfort series:Clarice Bean,That's Me" was also a highly commended runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal, the annual British Library Association award for children's book illustration. [2] [a] "Clarice Bean Spells Trouble" made the shortlists for both the British Children's Book of the Year and the Red House Children's Book Award. Before writing and illustrating children's books Child started her own company 'Chandeliers for the People' making lampshades. It was only when she came to write and illustrate the book Clarice Bean, That's Me that she decided to devote her time to writing and illustrating books for children, which combines her fascination for childhood and her talent for designing and creating. Child gets her inspiration from other people's conversations or from seeing something funny happen. Lauren Child MBE is an English author and illustrator. She was the UK Children's Laureate from 2017-19.

But you have to keep going, until you get to this point where you start to see all these threads and they all work together. It’s like doing one of those incredible puzzles where you begin to see all the bits. And then you just have to find a way of linking them. That’s why I write. It’s for that moment.”

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There are many funny scenes where things go terribly wrong and it is hilarious! They get a huge tree that is way too big for their house. The turkey is accidentally dropped on the floor and then eaten by a mysterious dog or fox. Clarice Bean tries to make fudge, but it is a hazardous undertaking. This whole book is so funny! Clarice Bean is a much-loved character in children's books created by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Lauren Child CBE. The display will follow the mischievous Clarice as she tries desperately hard to save her family's Christmas and stop the festive spirit from completely floating away. The story of Think Like an Elf is told over the eight windows of the Northumberland Street store frontage where it introduces viewers to Clarice’s home, her family, and her friends. Her book I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato won the 2000 Kate Greenaway Medal. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which comprised the shortlist for a public vote for the nation's favourite. It finished third in the public vote from that shortlist. Readers see Clarice’s world through her eyes. “When she describes her father’s office, she sees the glamour, and if that’s true, then he has a really important job. But I don’t think he does, because they live in a very average London house. It’s not very big. I imagine that they inherited it from her grandfather and they moved in with him to look after him. They are living a very ordinary life.” Clarice’s home in Clarice Bean: Think Like an Elf by Lauren Child