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Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children’s Laureate Lauren Child

At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it’s the better that’s needed.

And if you are thinking I'm too small to make a difference then remember the plankton – they are one of the tiniest creatures on the planet but without them where would we be? Probably living on Mars.

The utterly wonderful Clarice Bean is thinking about the endangered things: the big creatures, the little creatures, the plants and the trees. But it’s not just the planet that needs help – there’s her whole family too . . .

Critics Review

nPraise for Scram:n

u2018Clarice Bean is one of the most distinctive comic voices of childrenu2019s literatureu2019 Sunday Times, Book of the Week, Best Books of the Year

u2018Superbly illustrated, slyly funnyu2019 Guardian

u2018Lauren Child knows what goes through a child's mind, and how to transfer those thoughts to the page u2026 See for yourself by reading this entertaining taleu2019 Herald

u2018A new Clarice Bean novel is always an event and Lauren Childu2019s Clarice Bean: Scram! brings us more of her distinctive voice and elegant quirky illustrations to delight inu2019 The Times, Best Books for Summer

Praise for the CLARICE BEAN series:

u2018Witty and charming. We canu2019t get enough Clarice Beanu2019 Sunday Times

u2018Oodles of comic charmu2019 Evening Standard

u2018Funny, contemporary and perceptiveu2019 Mail on Sunday

u2018Clarice Bean fans will be delighted by her new adventuresu2019 Guardian

u2018Hugely enjoyable and touchingu2019 Scotsman

u2018Utterly fantasticu2019 Sunday Times

u2018Smile is a story that readers between seven and eleven years old will no doubt find moving, about how real life can get on top of us all u2013 a story where, in the end, it feels as if the kids are going to be alright.' TLS

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