Lauren Child

Lauren Child is an author and an illustrator. She resides in London. The award-winning author has books that are timeless classics that are known all over the world and much-loved. She also has created many characters, including Charlie and Lola, Ruby Redfort, and Clarice Bean.

The best place to start is the Hubert Horatio series, the earliest of Lauren Child's multi-book series: it opens with A Very Fishy Tale (1970) and runs to 4 books across 1970–2015, ending with The Millionaire Child Genius (2015). Lauren Child's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lauren Child has 103 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1970 and 2025. 91 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Charlie & Lola series with 70 books — and 12 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Lauren Child's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Hubert Horatio (1970–2015, 4 books), Clarice Bean (1999–2025, 10 books) and Charlie & Lola (2000–2018, 70 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Lauren Child's 103 books into 4 named series and 12 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Charlie & Lola (70 books, 2000–2018); Clarice Bean (10 books, 1999–2025); Ruby Redfort (7 books, 2011–2016); Hubert Horatio (4 books, 1970–2015).