Lauren Child
Lauren Child, MBE (born 1967 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England) is a British picture book illustrator and author.
Life
After her training at Manchester Polytechnic and City and Guilds of London Art at the School, she traveled around the world. She worked as an assistant to Damien Hirst and designed exotic lampshades. Inspired by a publisher, she began to make a picture book and to design a toy series. The result was Clarice Bean, That's Me, one of her most famous picture book characters.
2002 Lauren Child wrote her first children's book as an author, Utterly Me, Clarice Bean ( German through and through Clarice Bean, 2004), which has been translated into more than ten languages. Among her most successful picture books, the Charlie and Lola book series belongs. The popular characters captured as an animation film series, the British children's television.
Lauren Childs children's books have been awarded internationally. The British illustrator Quentin Blake presented her work in 2004 at the Magic Pencil exhibition at the British Library. Lauren Child lives in North London.
She is known for her expressive graphical illustration style, the witty collages and their lively, incisive language. Today Lauren Child is one of the most famous children 's book authors and illustrators in England.
Works (selection)
- Illustrations to Addy the Baddy of Margaret Joy, 1993
- Clarice Bean That's Me, 1999
- Beware of the Storybook Wolves, 2001
- I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato - Charlie and Lola (Eng. No tomatoes I do not ess, 2002! )
- What Planet Are You From Clarice Bean?
- Clarice Bean That's Me, 2002
- That Pesky Council, 2002
- Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, 2002 ( German through and through Clarice Bean, 2004)
- Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton -Trent, 2004 ( German Hubert Horatio Bieber Burg- Bartel, 2005)
- Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
- The Princess and The Pea, 2005 (Eng. The Princess and the Pea, 2006)
- Clarice Bean, Do not Look Now, 2006
- Ruby Redford, 2012