Lauren Child
Author
Series
Clarice Bean novels volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Hachette Children's Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clarice's extraordinarily ordinary family is under pressure. Dad keeps muttering about how "there might be a reshuffle going on at work", while mum spends her life "gribbling about pants on the floor and shoes on the sofa". And as for her brother, Minal Cricket, he "tends to be utterly a nuisance". Meanwhile, Mrs Wilburton, the school teacher who insists that Clarice sets a book project "which sounds utterly dreary", until, that is, Miss Bean realises...