My Uncle Is A Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean

Clarice Bean Picture Books Series

Author: Lauren Child

Book 2 in the Clarice Bean Picture Books series

Pages: 32

Published: 2001

Age: 5+

Clarice Bean's mum and dad are going away on Important Business, so Uncle Ted comes to stay. Everything goes really well at first, but before long there's a guinea pig on the loose, Granddad's gone missing, and Clarice's little brother is stuck in the railings like a giant squeaking tomato. Luckily Uncle Ted's around. He'll come to the rescue . . . won't he?

Please note: This book has also been published under the title Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting?

About the Clarice Bean Picture Books Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Clarice Bean, That's Me!(1999)
  2. 2.My Uncle Is A Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean(2001)
  3. 3.Clarice Bean, What Planet Are You From?(2001)
  4. 4.Guess Who's Babysitting?(2001)

Reading age: 6+ years

I know lots of people, most of them in my family.
Some of them live in our house,
and some of them just visit.
We are always raising a ruckus,
but that's the way we (mostly) like it.

When your annoying little brother shares your room, your older brother is in the tunnel of adolescence, your dad hides in his office eating rocky road ice cream and swaying to Frank Sinatra, and your mother listens to foreign language tapes in a candlelit bathtub, what can you do to get away from it all?

Meet the feisty Clarice Bean and sympathise with her search for just a little peace and quiet amidst a family many of us will recognise only too well. In her brilliant picture book debut, Lauren Child's witty text and jazzy illustrations capture the wonderful wacky chaos of a large extended family from the hilarious vantage point of one of its youngest members.

Note: Continue enjoying the adventures of Clarice Bean in the Clarice Bean Chapter Book series for readers 8 years and older.