Trees are important because they are stopping the earth running out of air. If we didn’t have trees we would all live in bubbles like space men. Trees are like gynormous vacuum cleaners sucking up the pollution.  

Lauren says: One morning when I was meant to be writing,
I switched on the television. I told myself I would only watch one show and then I would work but I didn’t of course. I started watching the next programme even though it was a show for schools. It was all about the universe and how big all the planets are compared to earth, and I remember the narrator saying,
if the sun was a beach ball then Pluto would be a peppercorn.

I thought Clarice Bean would explain things in this way, and then I started thinking about the kind of things she would be interested in.

I thought about the environment and global warming because those are things she might worry about, lots of children do. And then I thought about the little things someone like Clarice bean could do to make a difference – things like not dropping litter, recycling, turning the tap off when brushing teeth…turning the television off even. Little things that can make a big difference.