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Episode 15/15 Lauren Child, author,

She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series. Her influences include E. Lauren Child was born in Berkshire in [ 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. She changed her first name from Helen to Lauren when she was a child.

Between and she worked for the design agency Big Fish and includes its founder Perry Haydn Taylor in the dedications of her books. Two picture books both written and illustrated by Child were published in , and also issued in the U. Child's illustrations contain different media including magazine cuttings, collage, material and photography as well as traditional watercolours.

She is the illustrator of the Definitely Daisy series by Jenny Oldfield. Three series of 26 episodes and two specials were made. Charlie and Lola is a series of picture books made by Lauren Child and was later adapted into a children's TV show. Each half-hour format show contains two segments with different plots, each starting off with Charlie saying, "I have this little sister, Lola.

She is small and very funny. Lola was based on a pixie -looking girl Child saw on a train who was with her parents, a young couple, and kept bombarding them with questions. Soren Lorenson was based on Lauren's boyfriend's sister's "better" imaginary brother, and so Soren Lorenson became Lola's imaginary friend. Clarice Bean is a picture book and novel series by Lauren Child aimed at children and young teenagers.

Her full name is Clarice Bean Tuesday.