Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky Predicaments - Lauren Child

Ruby Redfort: secret agent, detective, thirteen-year-old kid. And now... survival expert. It's not always possible to skip around smelling roses, 'cos sometimes you're too busy gripping onto the cliff edge by your fingernails. But 99 times out of 100 it's worth hanging in there bozo: just as things can get worse so too can they get a whole lot better. In this handy pocket-sized book, Ruby will give you the lowdown on how to survive a bunch of tricky situations. So long as you keep a cool head, buster, you can make it out of there alive....

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. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Gold Award. Her books have been made into an award-winning TV series and have sold in many languages with runaway success.

Praise for Lauren Child:

'Lauren Child is a publishing phenomenon' - Observer Magazine

'Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating' - The Independent

Praise for the Ruby Redfort series:

'The coolest girl hero in years . Child refuses to write down to her tween and teen audience and challenges readers with more twists than a curling tongs party' The Times

'Redfort is one of the best things to happen to ten-plus British fiction' The Times

'The new Ruby Redfort book is utterly exceptionordinarily brilliant' - Clarice Bean

'Lauren Child has put imagination and fun back into the real worlds of childhood' - Julia Eccleshare, Guardian

'Cool, punchy, stylish' - Sun

'A cracking adventure' - Mail

'What more could adventure-loving girls want?' - The Sunday Times