I’d really love that. For the actor to play Hitch, I’m not sure who that could be. It would have to someone who is handsome, funny and clever. Any suggestions? My Uncle is a Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean - picture book - Clarice's parents have gone away and she is looked after by her Uncle. The next evening, Ruby watches the Explorer Awards on TV with Mrs Digby. There is a huge storm and the power gets cut. Ruby's parents return from the Explorer Awards, but Sabina is very ill. They call an ambulance and she is taken to hospital. While reading a book about poisons, Ruby realises that her mother could have been poisoned by her dress, and thinks it was methanol poisoning, as it fits the symptoms. The dress has disappeared from the hospital, but Ruby remembers the belt, and takes it in to Spectrum for testing. SJ finds the belt to contain methanol. Utterly Me, Clarice Bean - novel - Clarice has to do a dreary book project but there's a prize she wants to win. Pet the Dog: Vapona Begwell, who is Ruby's high-school arch-nemesis, gets several redeeming moments as the series progresses, eventually culminating in her forming a vague friendship with Ruby.

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Given Name Reveal: There are many of these in Book Six, where the names of LB, Hitch, the Count, the Australian, and Buzz are shown. They are also quite plot relevant.Yes, in a way I did because she was originally written as Clarice Bean’s hero and I very much wanted to write about a character like that, who would inspire Clarice. Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Spectrum is a multicolored building, and the departments are organized by an associated color. For example, Ruby is able to guess at where a science lab is using a color. LB and her room are always in white. Bradley Baker's files are colored golden yellow because he was a ray of sunlight according to Froghorn. There might be some synesthesia involved, it's implied that Froghorn, who organizes the files, is a synesthete. I Have You Now, My Pretty: The Count does this to Ruby at the climax of Look Into My Eyes. He even traps her in a giant hourglass, for drama. There’s a lot to lose sleep over in Twinford: there’s the snakes and the bivalves, but they aren’t half as poisonous as the rumours. With so many twists and turns, it’s hard to know who to trust, particularly when no one trusts you. Will Ruby make it out in one piece? Well, happy endings are for fairy tales, bozo." [2] Plot [ ] Prologues [ ]

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Adaptational Wimp: While still a interesting guy, Clancy Crew isn't as cool as he is in the books Clarice Bean reads. Here, Clancy is often kidnapped and scared, and far from unflappable: he even flaps his arms when excited, worried, or agitated. Charlotte Zolotow Award Books". Cooperative Children's Book Center. University of Wisconsin - Madison . Retrieved 26 September 2018. Lauren Child was born in Berkshire in 1965 [6] and was raised in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where her father led the art department at Marlborough College and her mother taught in a primary school. [1] She was the middle child of three daughters. She changed her first name from Helen to Lauren when she was a child. [7] She attended St John's School and, from 16, Marlborough College. [8] She studied Art briefly at Manchester Polytechnic and later at City and Guilds of London Art School. [9] She started her own company, Chandeliers for the People, making lampshades. Between 1998 and 2003 she worked for the design agency Big Fish and includes its founder Perry Haydn Taylor in the dedications of her books. [10] She is not a morning person and does not enjoy getting up early, although she sometimes has to get up early for Spectrum meetings.At the age of thirteen, Ruby got a coded phone call. She followed the clues to a location and ended up in a secret agency: Spectrum. She started working there as a codebreaker on the Fools' Gold Gang case, but was fired after about a month. However, after saving the Jade Buddha of Khotan from the Count von Viscount, LB, the head of Spectrum, decided to recruit her as a proper agent.

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She won a second Smarties Prize in 2002 for That Pesky Rat, which was commended for the Greenaway too. [12] [a] In the same year she wrote her first children's novel, Utterly Me, Clarice Bean, one of 39 books nominated by the librarians for the Carnegie Medal. [14] Her second novel in this series, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble was shortlisted for the 2005 British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. The third novel, Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now was published in 2007. Ruby can do convincing impressions of her mother, Clancy's mother, and Clancy's dad's secretary. [9] Ruby was then sent on dive camp in Hawaii, where she learned to scuba dive and free dive. She was also later trained in survival skills. Kindly Housekeeper: Mrs. Digby is a tough version of one. She loves the Redforts, but won't mind calling them out. Ruby took part in a chess tournament at age 6. She lost against a chess grandmaster with skill. The arrogant Kaspar Peterson smirked at her loss, so Ruby challenged him to a game, and won in 5 simple moves.Brainless Beauty: Brant and Sabina Redfort are very handsome and very popular socialites, but they don't have a lot going on in the brains department. Ruby is on her way to Penny Books, feeling like a quiet day, when she spots Del Lasco and Vapona Begwell having an argument. Ruby grabs Del and runs with her into an alley, where they climb into a dumpster to hide from Vapona and her gang. Start with a stripey jumper. It can be the start of many an easy costume including Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Where's Wally, or Horrid Henry. Outside-Genre Foe: In book 2, a major part of the plot is the mythical but actually real Sea Whisperer, a giant octopus. It stands out for being a fantastic creature when the rest of the series tends to go for unusual but plausible events and characters. Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now! - novel - Clarice has a worry list and is wondering what her worst worry is.