Child, Lauren

Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent is back in this hilarious and gloriously illustrated book for ages six and up from the superstar creator of Clarice Bean and Charlie and Lola, Lauren Child.

Ruby Redfort: undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius - you can count on her when the ice starts to crack. All good things come to an end. Ruby Redfort is running scared, a whole bunch of people want her dead and worst of all one of them is on her team. But just who is this ag...

Ruby Redfort: Undercover agent, code-cracker and 13-year-old genius - there's nothing average about her. Only this time it's an adventure in the wild, and it'll take all Ruby's got just to survive.

Join the one and only Clarice Bean and ‘Think Like an Elf’ in this irresistible and spectacularly sparkling Christmas story from the inimitable Lauren Child.Clarice Bean usually looks forward to Christmas.Except this year it is going to be a quiet-ish Christmas in her house, which doesn’t feel ri...

Lola wants a dog - but the qualities of her perfect pooch seem oddly like those of a rabbit! Silly, surprising, thoughtful and fun, Charlie and Lola are on top form in this fantastically funny story, packed full of dogs of every shape, size and colour.

Ruby Redfort: supercool secret agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius. In her fourth adventure, Ruby must pit her wits against a seemingly invisible foe. How do you set your sights on catching a light-fingered villain if you can't even see him.?

It’s been twenty wonderful years of the Laureateship and now all ten former honourees have banded together to celebrate the only way they know how: through stories, poems and pictures . Among others, Quentin Blake tells the stories behind his pictures of weird and wonderful beasts, Michael Morpur...

Once upon a time, on the edge of a dark forest, there lived a little girl called Goldilocks. Have you heard of her? If so, you will know three things about her: she was small, she had golden curls, and she was far too curious for her own good. So, when she finds a cottage deep in the forest, she ...