Clarice Bean, What Planet Are You From?
Clarice Bean Picture Books Series
While learning about the environment and planet Earth, Clarice Bean winds up with Robert "I mainly like to ignore him" Granger, as her class partner. Robert wants to do a project on who walks faster, a snail or a worm, but Clarice Bean finds this topic exceedingly boring.
Besides, there's something a lot more interesting going on at home. Brother Kurt has become an ecowarrior, which involves sitting in a doomed-to-be-felled tree, waving signs that say Free the Tree ("because it rhymes"), and sometimes perching together with the whole family, eating spaghetti marinara.
Please note: Some editions of this book are published under the slightly altered title of What Planet Are You From Clarice Bean?
About the Clarice Bean Picture Books Series
Books in series order
- 1.Clarice Bean, That's Me!(1999)
- 2.My Uncle Is A Hunkle, Says Clarice Bean(2001)
- 3.Clarice Bean, What Planet Are You From?(2001)
- 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.