2. Introduction
• Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath,
England in 1945 and she is a English
writer known for her vast and diverse work
in children’s literature. Her novels
commonly deal with such challenging
themes as adoption, divorce and mental
illness. Addressing such issues has made
her controversial because her readers are
young.
3. Life and education
• Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath. She was an imaginative child
who enjoyed both reading and inventing stories. Although she was
good at English, she had no interest in mathematics. She would
often stare out the window and imagine rather than pay attention to
the class, leading her final-year teacher at Latchmere to nickname
her "Jacky Daydream".
• After leaving school at 16 , she began training as a secretary ,but
then applied to work with the Dundee-based publishing company Dc
Thompson on a new girl’s magazine, Jackie.
• At age 19 she fell in love with a printer named Millar Wilson and in
1965 they got married. Two years later ,they had a daughter ,Emma.
The marriage was dissolved in 2004 after her husband left her.
4. Books
• All of Wilson's books are fiction except the two autobiographies listed first .
Autobiographies:
2007 Jacky Daydream
2006 My secret diary
Children’s book series
Stevie day
Is there anybody there?
Werepuppy
Tracy Beaker
Mark Spark
Freddy’s Teddy
Connie
Adventurous Holiday
Girls
Hetty Feather
5. Non-series books
• 1959 Meet the Maggots
• 1969 Ricky's Birthday
• 1972 Hide and Seek
• 1973 Truth or Dare
• 1974 Snap
• 1976 Let's Pretend
• 1977 Making Hate
• 1982 Nobody's Perfect
• 1983 Waiting for the Sky to Fall
• 1984 The Killer Tadpole
• 1984 The Other Side
• 1984 The School Trip
• 1986 Amber
• 1986 The Monster in the Cupboard
• 1987 The Power of the Shade
• 1988 This Girl
• 1989 Falling Apart
• 1989 The Left Outs
• 1989 The Party in the Lift
• 1990 Take a Good Look
• 1991 The Dream Palace
• 1992 Video Rose
• 1993 Deep Blue
• 1995 Jimmy Jelly
• 1995 Love from Katie
• 1995 My Brother Bernadette
• 1995 Sophie's Secret Diary
• 1996 Beauty and the Beast
6. Awards and honors
• Wilson has won many awards including the Smarties Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction
Prize. The Illustrated Mum (1999) won the annual Guardian Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book
award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and the annual British Book Awards
Children's Book of the Year; it also made the 1999 Whitbread Awards shortlist. The Story of
Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People's Choice Award. Girls in Tears was the Children's
Book of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards.
• Two of her books were "Highly Commended" runners up for the Carnegie Medal in Literature, a
distinction that was approximately annual at the time: The Story of Tracy Beaker (1991) and
Double Act (1995). (Wilson has not won the annual Medal from British librarians, which
recognises the year's best book for children or young adults written by a British subject recently,
simply the best published in the U.K.)
• In June 2002, Wilson was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools, and from 2005 to
2007 she served as the fourth Children's Laureate. In that role Wilson urged parents and child-
care providers to continue reading aloud to children long after they are able to read for
themselves. She also campaigned to make more books available for blind people and
campaigned against cutbacks in children's TV drama.
• In October 2005 she received an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in
recognition of her achievements in and on behalf of children's literature. In July 2007
Roehampton University awarded her an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters) in recognition of
her achievements in and on behalf of children's literature. She has also received honorary
degrees from the University of Dundee, the University of Bath and Kingston University.
• In the New Year Honours 2008, Jacqueline Wilson was made a Dame Commander of the Order
of the British Empire (DBE).
• In July 2012, she was also elected an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
7. Articles
• While the December market is traditionally slow for adult
fiction, when it comes to kids books, it’s a ripe old time of
year. This winter there are books from some familiar
names and favourite characters which won’t look bad
popping out of a woolly stocking come the end of
December. Jacqueline Wilson hit paydirt with the
hardback version of Lily Alone (Random House) and
the festive timing of this paperback couldn’t be better.
When her mum heads off on holiday with a new
boyfriend, Lily is left to hold the fort, looking after her
three younger siblings. Chaos ensues.
8. Articles
• Jacqueline Wilson is most popular library book
author of noughties
Jacqueline Wilson has triumphed over better selling
authors such as JK Rowling and Dan Brown to be
named the most popular library book author of the last
decade.
• HER BOOKS WERE LENT 16 MILLION TIMES BY BRITISH PUBLIC
LIBRARIES IN THE 10 YEARS TO JUNE 2009 – OR ALMOST 5,000
TIMES A DAY.
• FIGURES OF LIBRARY LENDING, RELEASED TODAY, ALSO SHOW
THAT HER BEST KNOWN WORK, THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER,
ABOUT A TROUBLESOME 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN A CHILDREN'S
HOME, WAS THE MOST BORROWED INDIVIDUAL TITLE OF THE
DECADE.
• By Stephen Adams Arts Correspondent
• 12:01am 12 Feb 2010
