One of today's most prominent author and illustrators of children's books, Lauren Child won the Kate Greenaway Award for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato. She is also the Smarties Bronze Prize winner, and has been Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway award, for Clarice Bean, That's Me. Her latest novel, Clarice Bean Spells Trouble was published in August 2004. Lauren lives in North London.