Her unpredictable and impulsive nature frequently gets her into trouble with her parents and her school principal, that just cannot understand the little girl.
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She has a very normal family though it is not immune to the usual conflict and tension amid all the support and warmth.Ĭlementine the lead protagonist in the series is a girl full of good intentions that often finds herself misunderstood by persons of authority given her personality quirks. Clementine is a distractible, impulsive, and more active child as compared with her peers, though she is also empathetic, innovative and very artistic. This perhaps informs the sweet hearted, cheerful, and positive attitude of Clementine, who also has issues with attention. In fact, Clementine the lead character in the series is based on her son who had issues with ADHD in school. She keeps tracks of people’s funny stories, quirks, and personalities, which she then tweaks and reproduces in the series to make for very interesting and believable characters. Despite drawing her inspiration from some moral or social high ground, most of the Clementine novels are based on persons the author knows. For instance, the last novel of the Clementine series was inspired by her interest in animal welfare, which resulted in a book themed on animal welfare. Nonetheless, despite her stance on issues, the novels never come across as too preachy as she creates a believable backstory for the character Clementine in each novel, threatens and challenges her cause, then records her reaction to the challenges. Pennypacker is usually driven to write when something has gotten her mad. Given that she writes for kids, the Clementine series of novels are written to correct some environmental or social injustice. She is an impulsive and artistic child with red curls, who often finds herself in the principal’s bad books for her characteristic imperfections and lack of cooperation. The series follow she unintentionally devious, lovable, and eccentric eight-year-old girl Clementine as she navigates her third grade school and home life. What happens is Sara will typically write the stories after which Frazee will come in to impart the emotion and body language by drawing the pictures.
The novels make use of the drawings to portray the relationship between the characters. Some of the most popular aspects of the series books are their illustrations, which are done by Marla Frazee who has been working on the novels right from the first novel. Following the massive commercial success of the first novel in the series, Pennypacker went on to write six more titles in the series, culminating in the seventh in the series “Completely Clementine” in 2015.
The first novel in the series is the 2006 published “Clementine”, from which the series takes its name. Clementine is a series of children’s novels by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker.
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