Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award. I really loved figuring out her hobbies, and especially all of the little questions asked at the end of each chapter relating to one of her books.

Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. I would really like to know about the adult years of this great author, but that is of course not what this book is about. In this fascinating book, discover: how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in "Dustbin Baby"; how she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in "Love Lessons"; how she sat entrance exams like Ruby in "Double Act". For example, the guess which of these characters had some relation to the chapter, I just mentioned. Nick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children including Shark in the Park , You Choose and Pants .In 2007 Jacky Daydream was published, an inspirational true story of how a shy schoolgirl became a superstar author. This is not a fictional story - it's a little autobiography-type book where Jacqueline Wilson's documents her childhood, and it's written like one of her stories! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I felt sorry for her when her Dad, Harry got into these terrible rants, and when Biddy, her Mom was forever telling her to pull her stomach in.

She explores her early years with the same warmth and lightness of touch that imbues her novels and covers such difficult issues as her parents' extra-marital affairs with delicacy. All in all I really understand why Jacqueline Wilson is the most borrowed author in the libraries of Britain. I felt nostalgic all the way through, though I think it’s fair to say I wasn’t as enthralled as I was reading it at 10. it is like she is telling you the whole thing of stuff like what she did and where she went for holidays and all kinds of things. But who would've guessed that she would grow up to be the mega-bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson!Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today.