star of both picture books and a series of novels

Clarice Bean is an intelligent girl with a deadpan sense of humour who comments on the world around her, revealing along the way how sometimes adults don’t always know what’s best

"I know lots of people, most of them are in my family. A lot of them live in our house, and some of them just visit. There’s usually a lot of noise and we are always at sixes and sevens but that’s the way we like it."