Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness. Addressing these issues has made her controversial because of her young readership.

Wilson may be best known for her series of novels featuring the character Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in Wilson's 1991 novel The Story of Tracy Beaker, from which has followed three sequels, as well as two CBBC television adaptations: The Story of Tracy Beaker and Tracy Beaker Returns.

Jacqueline Wilson's stories focus on much more than most children's books, and have tackled such difficult themes as abuse, grief, divorce, foster care and mental illness and her prose is often interspersed with ink drawings by illustrator Nick Sharratt, who also designs the covers for her books. She usually writes via a first person narrative, and has occasionally experimented with alternating viewpoints, such as in Secrets, The Lottie Project, Little Darlings and Double Act. She says: " I want to write to every age group, in a way that can prepare them for what happens in the real world, and raise the awareness levels of many life changing situations. I want to be a friend, really."

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