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Zusatztext Told in Child’s familiar stream-of-consciousness style and punctuated with creative vocabulary…Clarice is quickly stepping out from behind the shadow of other witty characters. —School Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Lauren Child is the award-winning author of three novels and three picture books about Clarice Bean, as well as a series of books about Charlie and Lola. She lives in London. Klappentext With her trademark wit and spot-on insight, Child delivers her funniest and most poignant Clarice Bean novel yet--an engaging story about childhood worries, unwanted changes, and finding friendships in the most surprising places. Illustrations. You see, the whole problem starts because Marcie is running a bath while she is also talking on the phone and she forgets that she has the faucet turned on and is just nonstop chatting with her friend Stan -- Stan isa girl even though it doesn't sound like it and she mainly wears boys' clothes. Anyway she is chatting so much that she forgets the bath, and the next thing you know, I am watching the television and finding it's raining intomy Snackle Pops. Of course it takes me a few minutes to work out what is going on until I hear Minal shouting, "The carpet in our bedroom is all soggy." I go inthere and he is jumping up and down on it in his bare feet like an utter lunatic. When Marcie realizes, she screams because she knows she will be in for it and in very big trouble. Grandad is asleep in his chair and does not realize he has gone a bit damp at the edges until he wakes up. He says, "It is funny, but I was dreaming I was in India during the monsoon." What Ruby would say is, "When disaster strikes, stay calm and work as a team. Someone must take charge." Marcie starts shouting at Minal. She says, "Why didn't you turn the faucet off, creep!" I say, "It's not his fault, you're the one who wasn't payingattention." Of course Minal is quite surprised that I am defending him -- as I normally do not. Marcie says, "A lot of good you are, just sitting watching TV all the time." I say, "At least I don't cause Grandad to get all saturated in water -- he might get a chill." Kurt says, "Marcie, why are you blaming everyone else when it is your stupid fault?" Marcie says, "Why don’t you go and call one of your drip girlfriends?" And he says, "I would if I could ever manage to get the phone off you -- is it Super-Glued to your ear?" And then Marcie says something very rude and they get in an argument. When Dad gets home, he makes a wincing face while he is listening to Marcie talking very, very fast about the happenings that have led up to this disaster. Dad finally puts her out of her misery by saying, "OK, I gather from all this babbling that the soggy state of our home is due to you, but these thingshappen and who cannot put up their hand and say, 'I have overflowed a bath'?" I want to put up my hand and say, "I have never overflowed a bath" but I am confused as to whether putting up my hand means I have or means Ihaven't -- so I keep quiet. Dad says, "Marce, if you just say you are sorry, that can be the end of it." Marcie says, "I am sorry." Dad says, "Fine, fetch a mop." We all find ourselves doing a lot of mopping -- even Grandad. He says it reminds him of his Navy days when he used to have to scrub the decks. Dad says, "You were never in the Navy." Grandad says, "No, you are quite right; I must have been thinking of that movie I watched last week." Anyway, by the time Mom gets home, everything is shipshape and there is no mess at all. But it doesn’t take her long to realize something has happened -- Mom is a bit like this. She has a sixth sense for trouble. She says, "So who’s going to tell me what small disaster occurred while I was out?"
