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Lauren Child

Author & Illustrator

About Lauren Child

Lauren Child is the Children's Laureate from 2017 to 2019 and one of the top children's author-illustrators in the UK. Her bestselling Charlie and Lola picture books, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, have been made into a BBC television series, and the first title I Will Not Ever Eat a Tomato won the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is also the author of the Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort picture books and novels. Lauren lives in Hampstead in London.

Recent updates about Lauren Child

Teddy Bear Day

If you go down to the woods today, take Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Lauren Child from Puffin!

8 days ago

Back to school

Read Charlie and Lola: I Absolutely Love Animals by Lauren Child from Puffin - perfect for today!

14 days ago

National Zoo Awareness Day

Charlie and Lola: I Absolutely Love Animals by Lauren Child from Puffin is a wonderful book for your children

17 days ago

National Zoo Awareness Day

Charlie and Lola: I Absolutely Love Animals by Lauren Child from Penguin Random House Children's UK is a wonderful book for your children

17 days ago

Happiness Happens Month

August is Happiness Happens Month! Loving William by Richmal Crompton and Lauren Child from Macmillan Children's Books.

1 month ago

Edinburgh Art Festival

A brilliant art book Dan's Angel by Alexander Sturgis from Frances Lincoln Children's Books 

1 month ago

International Day of Friendship

Charlie and Lola: I Absolutely Love Animals by Lauren Child from Puffin - a book perfect for today!

1 month ago

International Tiger Day

Earn your stripes by reading Maude: The Not-So-Noticeable Shrimpton by Lauren Child and Trisha Krauss from Puffin.

1 month ago

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