Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes Award-winning author by Lauren Child (author)

Author/Illustrator

Lauren Child

Lauren Child burst on to the children’s books scene in 1999 and has since published many bestselling and award-winning books, including those featuring the hugely popular Charlie and Lola, and the Clarice Bean series. Lauren was born in 1967, and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. After studying Art at Manchester Polytechnic and London Art School, she worked in a variety of jobs, including assistant to Damien Hirst. She also started her own company, ‘Chandeliers for the People’, making exotic lampshades.

Her first children’s book Clarice Bean, That’s Me won a Bronze medal at the Nestle Smarties Book Awards. In 2000, she won the prestigious Kate Greenaway medal for I Will Not Ever, Never Eat a Tomato followed by a second Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for That Pesky Rat. Clarice Bean became the star of Lauren’s first novel Utterly Me, Clarice Bean in 2002, and went on to appear in two more novels. A television series based on her Charlie and Lola books has also become a huge hit for CBBC.

Lauren Child first introduced the character of Ruby Redfort in her three award-winning, bestselling Clarice Bean novels. Since then she has been inundated with letters from fans asking for the Ruby Redfort books. And it must have worked, because the first two in the series, Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes and Ruby Redfort: Take Your Last Breath have already been published to great critical and commercial success.

Lauren Child’s illustrations contain many different mediums including magazine cuttings, collage, material and photography as well as traditional watercolours. Lauren lives in London, where she works for the Design Agency ‘Big Fish’. In 2008 she was announced as UNESCO’s Artist for Peace and in 2010 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.

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1. Laser10
   on 26 March 2015

   THIS IS A AWESOME BOOK!!!!! 10 out of 10

   Also look out for Ruby Redfort: Take Your Last Breath

   5 out of 5

2. Oman-bookworm
   on 8 March 2014

   I love it! It is thrilling and funny. Lauren Child is genius.

3. emz1415
   on 15 December 2013

   BES5. BOOK. EVER. BOZO

   5 out of 5

4. saud4eva
   on 8 April 2013

   awesome book i have read it and it turned out to be one of the best books ive read (ive read a lot of books)

   5 out of 5

5. lap312i
   on 8 March 2013

   great book

6. samcharlie123
   on 5 March 2013

   A great book by Lauren Child.

   A book about a young spy called Ruby Redfort.

   Well worth the read, you’ll really enjoy it.

   5 out of 5

7. a11timehorses
   on 4 March 2013

   AMAZING!!

   5 out of 5

8. TheMileLongBookshelfBlog
   on 4 March 2013

   The cover of this book is awesome – I like how you can only see Ruby’s eyes as it makes the cover look more mysterious. The green and pink add a nice splash of colour.

   This book is full of exciting adventures, murderous villains, perplexing codes and difficult missions. Ruby is meant to be thirteen, and even though she’s a ‘genius’, sometimes I thought she seemed more like an eleven year old. However I don’t think this really matters as some people don’t act their age, and that includes characters in books! My only problem with this book is that it was very slow-paced in places.

   I read this all in one sitting. It was a fun book to read, and I liked imagining how Ruby would get out of the dramatic, near-death experiences she would get herself into. The secret codes Ruby and her friend used were so good that I couldn’t decipher them – maybe it would’ve been good if the translation had been at the bottom of the page in small print or something.

   I used to read other books by Lauren Child when I was little, such as Clarice Bean and Charlie and Lola, so it’s nice that she’s finally written a book for my current age group.

   This book is fine for girls and boys aged 10-14, and could probably be read to a slightly younger child. I give it a rating of 4/5 – a point deducted for the occasional slow pace. Overall though, this is a fantastic book!

9. ZZZZebra
   on 3 January 2013

   Utterly fantastic! I literally couldn’t stop reading this book!

   5 out of 5

10. Clarice-Bean
    on 14 November 2012

    I loved this book so much. It’s so amazing how Lauren Child went from writing a diaries type of novel to writing mysteries.

11. Daisylolo
    on 3 August 2012

    I love Lauren child and all the books she writes everything she writes has a twist or a spin to it so ruby Redford is one of the best books she’s written.ruby Redford has loads of twist and spins I v read this book3 times

    5 out of 5

12. tininny8
    on 27 June 2012

    amazingly funny it keeps you on your toes! i love hitch and sabina’s conversations- i read it out for my speech and drama exam!!

13. victoria22
    on 7 March 2012

    A thrilling and exciting read, full of adventure. I would recommend it for people who like suspense and mystery.

    5 out of 5

14. nikki657
    on 6 March 2012

    i REALLY want to read this soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

15. cannonball
    on 5 March 2012

    i REALLY want to read this soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

16. indigobeam
    on 3 March 2012

    This is a very intresting book. It had a good, strong idea behind it but I don’t think it was developed very well. Ruby wasn’t written very well and I couldn’t imagine her like I can with some characters.

17. eve624860
    on 2 March 2012

    ive read about ruby redfort in clarice bean books. and i loved the way its described

18. Bookworm81
    on 29 February 2012

    A book that I really want to read and hope to do so soon.

19. Sparkle10
    on 4 January 2012

    I realy enjoyed reading this book because i enjoy peaple solving mysteries.I especially like the begining when it tells you how Ruby started to be a detective.I would give this book 10 out of 10.Amazing read.

    5 out of 5