Lauren Child

Lauren Child spent much of her childhood daydreaming. This inspired her to create the character Clarice Bean, and she also developed Ruby Redfort as a parallel heroine. She is also the creator of the global success "Charlie and Lola," which began as a series of children's books and was adapted into an animated series. She has sold millions of books worldwide and has won several awards for her work. Her "Ruby Redfort" books feature cryptograms and codes, created with the assistance of Marcus du Sautoy, the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford