Jacqueline Wilson: Five Children and It, and me
When she was asked to write a sequel to a classic children's book, Jacqueline Wilson said no. But then she saw the fun she could have with the wish-granting fairy and a modern jigsaw familyI first...
View ArticleMy Hetty Feather: Jacqueline Wilson on seeing her heroine step on to stage
When Novel Theatre wanted to stage my book, I felt as proprietorial as any mother. Who was going to play my Hetty?• Hetty Feather reviewed by Emily Drabble and her eight-year-old daughter – 'it felt...
View ArticleJacqueline Wilson on What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge: 'It's a wonderful book'
What Katy Did thrilled Jacqueline Wilson when she was growing up but the attitudes to disability left something to be desired. And that’s why the author of Tracey Beaker and Hetty Feather has written a...
View ArticleFree read! Little Stars by Jacqueline Wilson
Escaping from Tanglefield’s Travelling Circus with her friend Diamond, Hetty Feather is determined to find them positions as glamorous music hall artistes. Hetty and Diamond become the Little Stars of...
View ArticleEnter Jacqueline Wilson's creative writing competition
Jacqueline Wilson is offering an amazing prize in her creative writing competition for seven to 12 year olds - have your story published in one of her books! She explains why you should enter and...
View ArticleJacqueline Wilson asks Lauren Child for her writing tips - video
Haven’t yet entered the Jacqueline Wilson Creative Writing prize? You have just 35 days to go! Here’s Jacky talking to the amazing Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort author and illustrator...
View ArticleJacqueline Wilson asks Clare Balding for her writing tips - video
Haven’t yet entered the Jacqueline Wilson Creative Writing prize? You have just 17 days to go! Here’s Jacky talking to TV presenter and children’s author Clare Balding to give you some more tips about...
View ArticleMy writing day: Jacqueline Wilson
‘I become my main character, scarcely aware that my own fingers are tapping away as I experience everything through her eyes’I once wrote in a Lett’s School-Girl’s Diary “It would be so wonderful to be...
View ArticleBooks to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and...
This week at Hay festival, writers, artists and thinkers have been discussing the world we live in today. How do we stay positive and fight for change? Here they reveal the books that give them hopeI...
View ArticleJacqueline Wilson: ‘Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt made me laugh and cry’
The Tracy Beaker author on the book that changed her life and why she wishes she had written The Bell JarThe book I am currently readingThe Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher. I’m loving it – he has got...
View ArticleBook clinic: which books will make me a better parent of an adopted teenage...
Jacqueline Wilson recommends some titles whose mothers, real and fictional, are endearingly flawedQ: What can I read to help me parent an (adopted) 13-year-old angry daughter better?Charity fundraiser,...
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