Meet LAUREN CHILD

Occupation: Multi-million-copy best-selling author, illustrator, TV producer, and starer out of the window. LAUREN CHILD first introduced the character of Ruby Redfort in her three award-winning Clarice Bean novels: Utterly Me, Clarice Bean; Clarice Bean Spells Trouble; and Clarice Bean, Dont Look Now. Since then she has been inundated with letters from fans asking for Ruby Redfort to have her own series. Well, buster, here it is! Lauren Child is also the author of the phenomenally successful Charlie and Lola books and is an associate producer of the TV show of the same name. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages around the world, and she has won many awards, including the Nestl Smarties Childrens Book Prize (four times) and the Kate Greenaway Medal.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Photograph Polly Borland

written and illustrated by LAUREN CHILD

Crack open Ruby Redforts second adventureand you will literally be on the edge of your wits.
Everyones favorite girl detective is back for a second mind-blowing installment, packed with all the off-the-wall humor, action, and friendship of the first book. This time, though, its an adventure on the wide-open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea. . . . Can she crack the case of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of both a vile sea monster and the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldnt want to bet against her.
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More from LAUREN CHILD

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
PB: 978-0-7636-2788-1

Clarice Bean, Guess Whos Babysitting?

PB: 978-0-7636-4797-1

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato

HC: 978-0-7636-1188-0 PB: 978-0-7636-2180-3

Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

PB: 978-0-7636-2903-8

Clarice Bean, What Planet Are You From?

PB: 978-0-7636-4796-4

I Am Too Absolutely Small for School

HC: 978-0-7636-2403-3 PB: 978-0-7636-2887-1

Clarice Bean, Dont Look Now

HC: 978-0-7636-3536-7 PB: 978-0-7636-3935-8

Clarice Bean, Thats Me

HC: 978-0-7636-0961-0 PB: 978-0-7636-4795-7

I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed

HC: 978-0-7636-1570-3 PB: 978-0-7636-2970-0 Pop-up book: 978-0-7636-4098-9

Clarice Bean: The Utterly Complete Collection

Boxed set: 978-0-7636-4115-3

Slightly Invisible
HC: 978-0-7-636-5347-7

Who Wants to Be a Poodle I Dont

HC: 978-0-7636-4610-3

On sale May 2013

Illustrated middle-grade fiction HC: 978-0-7636-5468-9 E-book: 978-0-7636-6357-5 $16.99 ($19.00 CAN) 400 pages (est.) Ages 1013 Also available in audio

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Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes

written and illustrated by LAUREN CHILD

Meet Ruby Redfort:

Code cracker. Secret Agent. Schoolgirl.
The most striking thing about Ruby Redfort was that when you met her you felt a strong need for her to like you. Thirteen-year-old girl. Every smart kids smart kid. Sassy, cute, brainy, and fearless (well, except for small dark spaces, which she is rather scared of . . . but isnt everybody?)

Sardonic narration will grab readers

from the get-go, and puzzles laced throughout will intrigue those who share Rubys passion for solving mysteries.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort books. Ruby, a genius codecracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization and get into lots of scrapes with evil villains. Just take a classic screwball comedy, add heaps of breathtaking action, and multiply it by Lauren Childs writing genius, and what have you got? Only the most exciting new middle-grade series since, like, ever.

Appearance:
At first glance a very ordinary-looking kid. Petite. Small for her years. Eyes: different shades of green Teeth: small, doll-like Hair: dark brown, side parting across her right eye, always secured by a barrette

Attire:
Shes got her own style. Occasionally wears vintage dresses bought at yard sales. Usually seen in jeans, sneakers, a T-shirt printed with either a somewhat hostile word, bozo, an interesting number like 1729, or some less than agreeable statement, bored beyond belief.

HC: 978-0-7636-5120-6 $16.99 ($19.00 CAN) E-book: 978-0-7636-5636-2 $16.99 ($19.00 CAN) PB: 978-0-7636-6257-8 $7.99 ($9.00 CAN) 400 pages Ages 1013

Paperback available in April!

Parents:
Brant and Sabina Redfort Fabulously rich socialites; not the brightest buttons in the box, but well liked by the Twinford community Have no idea that their daughter works for a secret organization called SPECTRUM

Praise for Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes

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Spy gadgets:
Usually disguised as everyday objects: The rescue watch can get you out of most scrapes at a seconds notice The mini-locator key ring a device to get you found The voice-thrower dog whistle throws your voice in any direction The toaster fax machine read the briefing, eat the briefing . . .

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Ruby also has loads of Rules . . .

Rule 7: Never forget the little things its the little things that will lead people to notice the big things. Rule 12: Adjust your thinking and your chances improve. Rule 19: Panic will freeze your brain. Rule 52: You can miss a lot in the blink of an eye.