Clarice Bean series

The Clarice Bean series is a series of children's books written and illustrated by the English author Lauren Child from 1999. The main character is Clarice Bean and the stories feature her challenges navigating the complex ethical and social questions children deal with at school and at home.

A spin-off "Ruby Redfort series", which the US publisher called a "six-book middlegrade fiction series" in advance, was inaugurated in 2011.

Both That's Me and What Planet? were bronze runners-up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 6–8 years and the latter won the Kids Club category. 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.

Utterly Me was the first novel in the series and one of 39 books nominated by the librarians for the Carnegie Medal, companion to the Greenaway.

Trouble made the shortlists for both the British Children's Book of the Year and the Red House Children's Book Award.

Clarice Bean's family:

Kurt is the oldest child followed by Marcie, Clarice, and then Minal is the youngest.

People at school may be divided in two groups.

Betty Moody is Clarice Bean's best friend, and they do most things together. As well as Clarice herself Betty loves the Ruby Redfort series. Betty also loves dogs and in the 1st book she got 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 moved to San Francisco because when call-me-Mol went to California for a vacation, she found a job and decided to work there.

Karl is the son of a single parent, his mum.His dad ran away when he was younger. He is featured as at first an enemy and later a friend. He is very good with dogs and helps train Grandad and their dog, Cement, manners. He also is always a trouble maker and gets into trouble a lot at school by Mrs. Wilberton their class teacher. He is often sent to Mr. Pickering's office for his bad behavior. In one of the books, he throws his chair across the room.

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