Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple
 

Main Page
Author List
Title List
New This Month
Interest Level
Subject List
FAQ's
Contributors
Booktalking Tips
Book Review Sources
Reading lists
Awards
Nancy Keane's Children's Website
nancy@nancykeane.com
 

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Child, Lauren.
UTTERLY ME, CLARICE BEAN
Boston : Candlewick Press, 2003.
IL 3-6, RL 5.0
ISBN 0763621862
Clarice can't concentrate in school (apparently a common housefly has got more ability to apply itself) and she's really only interested in reading about her favorite girl detective, Ruby Redfort.  Ruby is fabulously rich and really a secret agent, and Clarice starts to find her family of six anything but adventurous by comparison.  So when her teacher announces a book project with a prize, Clarice thinks she finally has the opportunity to show her teacher, parents, and schoolmates how focused and exciting she can really be.  But some pretty funny things happen on the way to the book project... Rich with the author's celebrated illustrations and a layout that's anything but traditional, this book is fun from the word go.  Utterly Me, Clarice Bean with a is a lough-out-loud, read passages to your friends, parents, siblings, anyone-you-can-grab-off-the-street kind of book.  Hey with a dog named Cement that buries slippers in the back yard, how can you go wrong?  (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee, 2004-05)
SUBJECTS:     Bean, Clarice (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Contests -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- Fiction.
                        Humorous stories.
                        Mystery and detective stories.

© 

Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.