Clarice Bean is 15! Celebrate with this special birthday edition of the very first Clarice Bean picture book.

Commended for Kate Greenaway Medal 1999.

Wonderful to read aloud. Sunday Express (Cressida Cowell) It'll make you roar with laughter Sunday Times Laugh-out-loud funny gloss on family life The Bookseller Child's spot-on portrait of family life...has an anthropological quality reminiscent of Posy Simmonds' Weber family...exuberantly inventive Books for Keeps For a humorous and refreshingly honest look at family life, you can't get any better than this The Bookseller Brilliantly written and drawn by Lauren Child, the cringe-worthy details are a joy The Guardian A real treat. This is only Lauren Child's second book for children and I'm totally hooked The Independent Text and illustrations are united in giving this wittily ironic, child's-eye view of familiar characters and their foibles The Guardian Represents the arrival of a sparkling and irresistable new talent Literacy and Learning A modern classic Sainsburys Magazine The quirky perspectives show cheerful disregard for convention in this unusual take on family life The Guardian A fresh, playful, wonderfully chaotic look at family life that will make you laugh out loud The Independent Full of wonderfully dry one-liners Times Educational Supplement