Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. 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.ĭouble Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Since then Jacqueline has been on countless awards shortlists and has gone on to win many awards. This was also the first of her books to be illustrated by Nick Sharratt. One of Jacqueline’s most successful and enduring creations has been the famous Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her!) before turning to writing novels full-time. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. In a story written with humour and sensitivity, Tracy emerges as a spirited girl who's not quite as tough as she lets Then a journalist shows up to write a story about their orphanage, and she and Tracy strike up a special friendship. and even though the other girls she lives with are mean and nasty and rude and horrible. In the meantime, Tracy's doing everything she can to take care of herself, even though she has to share her birthday cake with silly Petey Ingham just because they have the same birthday. And maybe one day Tracy's mother will show up and reclaim her long-lost daughter, and together they'll have fabulous adventures. She has a picture of her mother, who's pretty enough to be in movies, so maybe she is. Tracy Beaker's not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. Introducing Tracy Beaker, 10-year-old girl-wonder and the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress.

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